Essex Archaeol Hist 28

Replaces interim report 96/324. The site is immediately adjacent to the major Elms Farm excavations (see 95/1172 & 96/192). There was an active palaeochannel and features of Beaker, LBA/EIA and MIA date; LIA/early Roman field boundaries and a trackway continued in use, along with settlement-edge activity (such as a well), until a new boundary was made in the mid Roman period. There was only a little evidence for Late Roman and Saxon activity. Jacqueline I McKinley writes on `Cremated bone' (29--30), Graeme Walker on `Flint artefacts' (30--1), Nigel Brown on `Prehistoric pottery' (32--3), A T Croom on `The Roman pottery' (33--5), Susan Tyler on `Saxon pottery' (35--7), Linda Viner on `The small finds' (37--8) and Julie Jones, David Smith & Keith Wilkinson on `Environment and economy' (38--44).

Features of Beaker, Early Iron Age and Late Iron Age date on a site close to the Thames floodplain. Jane Timby contributes a report on `The pottery' (99--100).

A review of current knowledge of surviving detached (see also 96/738) and attached kitchens.

A substantial ditch, backfilled in the medieval period; topographically unlikely to relate to the late Saxon burh defences (see 93/1044), it may instead be evidence of a later, medieval town enclosure.

Surveys and dendrochronological dating of two buildings on the original Cressing Temple estate: New House Farm of the 1630s and a specialised agricultural building of the late sixteenth century at Hungry Hall, soon converted into a house. Not rebuilding of outmoded properties but new buildings to meet new needs.

Summaries (in chronological order) of chance finds and watching briefs, and also reports on aerial survey, mapping of sites as part of the RCHME National Mapping Project and other research projects including industrial archaeology.

Reports on a number of survey and recording projects throughout the county, on buildings of fourteenth- to seventeenth-century date, including further work on barn plan geometry (see 98/817 & 826).

A small late nineteenth-century collection from the Flood Plain Terrace Gravel and the Taplow Terrace Gravel, one of which is said to come from the famous NE London `Palaeolithic floor'.

Three complete socketed axes, one broken one and a razor; a small Ewart Park-phase hoard recovered by metal-detector.

A watching brief, with possible evidence of fourteenth-century backfilling and nineteenth-century levelling.

A medieval ditch and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century buildings, including cess pit and rubbish pit groups.

Introduces a project aiming to record place-names from documentary sources and to investigate those of archaeological and historical interest on the ground.