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Title:

Evaluation at East Tilbury and Linford, Essex

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Oxford Archaeological Unit unpublished report series

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5284/1116117

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Abstract:

The overburden was removed from each trench by a 360° mechanical excavator fitted with a toothless bucket and working under close archaeological supervision. Excavation proceeded to the first archaeological horizon or to undisturbed natural geology, whichever was encountered first. Spoil from the topsoil and subsoil were stored separately. The trenches were cleaned by hand and any revealed features were sampled to determine their extent and nature, and to retrieve finds and environmental samples. All features and deposits encountered were issued a unique context number. A plan was drawn of each trench at a scale of 1:50, and each excavated feature was recorded in section at 1:20. Colour transparency and black-and-white photographs were taken of each feature, as well as more general shots of each trench. Spoil was scanned for artefacts, which were recorded and retained. All recording was conducted in accordance with the practices detailed in the OA Fieldwork Manual (OAU 1992). Trenches were backfilled using 360° mechanical excavators in accordance with specifications outlined by the land owners and their representative agencies. Between 8th August and 26th September 2005 Oxford Archaeology (OA) carried out a field evaluation on land at East Tilbury and Linford, Essex on behalf of CgMs Consulting and Thamesgate Regeneration Ltd. The results of the evaluation are to be included in an Environmental Statement in support of a planning application to be submitted to Thurrock Council for a proposed housing development. This evaluation exercise was concerned with Trenches 1 and 2 of Phase 1 of a programme that will be rolled out according to the phasing of the development. In addition to this, part of the corridor of a proposed spine road and an area of land belonging to the Bata Trust was also evaluated. At the time of the evaluation access was not available to part of the central and south-western parts of Trench 2. This area will be evaluated at a future date when access becomes available. The evaluation identified four main concentrations of archaeological features. A late Bronze Age settlement surrounded by a substantial enclosure ditch was identified in Trenches 385, 386, 388 and 390 on the land belonging to the Bata Trust. Features in the trenches around this may be the remains of fields and paddocks associated with the settlement. In the northern part of Trench 1 evidence was found for a complex of field boundaries dating from the Roman period. The presence of a number of pits and postholes in this area, combined with the evidence from the pottery assemblage, hints at the existence of a settlement in the vicinity. Two further areas of field system were identified, located in the southern part of Trench 1 and at the southern end of Trench 2, the latter extending into the corridor of the proposed spine road. Ditches dating from both the late Bronze Age and the Roman period were recorded in the latter area, suggesting that superimposed field systems of both periods are present.

Author:

Andrew Simmonds

Publisher:

Oxford Archaeology

Other Person/Org:

Essex HER (OASIS Reviewer)

Year of Publication:

2005

Locations:

District:	Thurrock
County:	Thurrock
County:	Essex
Country:	England
Parish:	Thurrock, unparished area

Grid Reference: 566998, 179000 (Easting, Northing)

Subjects / Periods:

DITCH (Monument Type England)

ROMAN PIT (Tag)

TREE THROW (Monument Type England)

POST HOLE (Monument Type England)

ANIMAL REMAINS (Object England)

LATE BRONZE AGE POST HOLE (Tag)

CREMATION GRAVE (Monument Type England)

POST MEDIEVAL DITCH (Tag)

LATE BRONZE AGE SHERD (Tag)

LATE NEOLITHIC POST HOLE (Tag)

LATE BRONZE AGE GULLY (Tag)

UNCERTAIN DITCH (Tag)

LATE BRONZE AGE ANIMAL REMAINS (Tag)

MEDIEVAL DITCH (Tag)

ROMAN SHERD (Tag)

PIT (Monument Type England)

LATE BRONZE AGE DITCH (Tag)

NEOLITHIC SHERD (Tag)

LATER PREHISTORIC LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Tag)

UNCERTAIN TREE THROW (Tag)

MIDDLE NEOLITHIC DITCH (Tag)

UNCERTAIN GULLY (Tag)

LITHIC IMPLEMENT (Object England)

GULLY (Monument Type England)

UNCERTAIN PIT (Tag)

ROMAN DITCH (Tag)

EVALUATION (Event)

LATER PREHISTORIC CREMATION GRAVE (Tag)

SHERD (Object England)

ROMAN ANIMAL REMAINS (Tag)

LATE NEOLITHIC (Historic England Periods)

LATE BRONZE AGE (Historic England Periods)

ROMAN (Historic England Periods)

MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)

POST MEDIEVAL (Historic England Periods)

LATER PREHISTORIC (Historic England Periods)

NEOLITHIC (Historic England Periods)

MIDDLE NEOLITHIC (Historic England Periods)

UNCERTAIN (Historic England Periods)

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OASIS Id:

oxfordar1-516817

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Created Date:

30 Nov 2023