Brown, R. (2014). ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS AT LAND ADJACENT TO SAMPFORD ROAD, THAXTED, ESSEX . Archaeology South-East. https://doi.org/10.5284/1078430. Cite this using datacite

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS AT LAND ADJACENT TO SAMPFORD ROAD, THAXTED, ESSEX
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Archaeology South East unpublished report series
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ASE was commissioned by Knight Developments Ltd, to conduct archaeological works in advance of the construction of residential housing and associated amenities at the site. The earliest feature on the site was a ditch dated to the Middle Iron Age but the main occupation and use of the site began in the early 1st century AD during the Late Iron Age period. Two roundhouses and a pond with an associated drain represented the first settlement. A slightly later field system was established in the vicinity of the roundhouses in the mid 1st century. There followed a major reorganisation with the construction of a double ditch enclosure cutting through the roundhouses. The remainder of the site was devoted to agriculture from this date. A pattern of ditches delineated small rectangular fields in the centre of the study area, complementing previous discoveries on Bellrope Meadow to the west. Later in the 1st century a new field system was established across the centre and south of the site. At the end of the 1st century the site was apparently all but abandoned. Only one feature, a ditch, was definitively late Roman. The Bellrope Meadow excavation had produced burials dating from the 1st and into the 3rd centuries, demonstrating that occupation in the locality had not entirely ceased. There was no evidence for post-Roman activity until the later medieval period when three ditches marked the resumption of farming on the site. They were only broadly dated to 1200-1600. Post- medieval activity was represented by a large quarry pit and a late field boundary.
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R Brown
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Archaeology South-East
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Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Essex County Council Historic Environment (OASIS Reviewer)
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2014
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Site: Land at Sampford Road
County: Essex
District: Uttlesford
Parish: THAXTED
Country: England
Grid Reference: 561290, 231690 (Easting, Northing)
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ROMAN (Historic England Periods) COIN (Object England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT (Object England)
LATE IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) FIELD SYSTEM (Monument Type England)
MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods) FIELD SYSTEM (Monument Type England)
ROMAN (Historic England Periods) FIELD SYSTEM (Monument Type England)
LATE IRON AGE (Historic England Periods) ROUND HOUSE (DOMESTIC) (Monument Type England)
TEST PIT (Event)
EXCAVATION (Event)
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OASIS Id: archaeol6-194470
OBIB: Report number 2014358
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12 Jun 2020