Late C18 Public House

Worker Cottages built by W.H. Collier of the Marks Tey Brick and Tile Works

15th century halled building (Sparlings Solicitors).

Excavation at Birch Pit, Maldon Road, Birch, Colchester, 2007

Site of Cluniac priory, founded c.1127.

Moat surrounds late 16th or early 17th century house (MCC7238).

Excavations on the site of the Cups Hotel.

A Saxon church was examined in the former grounds of the Abbey.

A trial-trenched evaluation and small excavation in 2015, in advance of a housing development, defined a small number of late prehistoric (ditches, pits and post-holes), which produced a small assemblage of handmade pottery (incl. three decorated sherds) dated to the Early Iron Age. The excavation also defined a probable Roman ditch (containing a 2nd century AD sherd).

P.G. Laver's excavations in 1931-33 revealed 'many burials' within the area of the Castle chapel (MCC2084), but there was 'nothing to indicate that any burials were associated with the chapel' (Drury 1983, p.333). The burials had been interred after the demolition of the chapel, barbican and forebuilding and are thought to date from the late 16th to the 17th centuries when the Keep was used a prison.<1>