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74 East Street Coggeshall Essex |
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Essex County Council Field Archaeology Unit unpublished report series
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Report (in Series)
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Abstract: |
Essex County Council Field Archaeology Unit carried out an archaeological evaluation by trial trenching at 74 East Street, Coggeshall. The evaluation trenches showed that the survival of archaeological features and deposits across the development area was generally poor, but that significant archaeological remains survived in a localised area alongside East Street, on the eastern side of the stream that crosses the site. The earliest remains were medieval, dating to the 12th to 13th centuries. The medieval features at the street frontage were truncated by ground clearance and levelling dated to the later 14th to 16th centuries, related to the construction of a house on East Street depicted on Samuel Parsons'' map of 1639, located immediately to the west of the modern No. 74. Although no physical evidence of this house was found, a brick-lined well constructed in the 16th to early 17th centuries, and infilled in the 17th century or later, would have been contemporary with it. The well and the general area of the house were sealed by a layer of post-medieval brick and tile debris. Cartographic evidence suggests that the house had been demolished by the 19th century, in contrast to the 16th/17th-century house at No. 72 immediately to the west, which still survives. An area of rough yard surfacing at the site''s southern limit is dated to the late 16th to 17th centuries, but also contained a range of residual late medieval artefacts. |
Author: |
M Pocock
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Publisher: |
Essex County Council Field Archaeology Unit
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Other Person/Org: |
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Essex County Council Historic Environment Records (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2006
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Locations: |
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74 East Street |
Parish: |
COGGESHALL |
District: |
Braintree |
County: |
Essex |
Country: |
England |
Grid Reference: 585400, 222600 (Easting, Northing)
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OASIS Id: |
essexcou1-16947 |
OBIB: |
Report Number 1516 |
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A4 Blue spine
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Created Date: |
23 Nov 2016 |