| Title: |
Prehistoric settlement and burials at Elms Farm, Heybridge
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| Issue: |
Essex Archaeol Hist 32 |
| Series: |
Essex Archaeology & History
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| Volume: |
32
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| Page Start/End: |
42 - 74 |
| Biblio Note |
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| Publication Type: |
Journal
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| Abstract: |
Prehistoric activity on this multi-phase site includes Neolithic settlement, Bronze Age funerary activity, and less well-defined Early and Middle Iron Age occupation of this river valley/estuarine location. The excavated evidence, particularly from the 1993 site, correlates with that of the adjacent Crescent Road and Langford Road sites. Together, they shed light on the early use of the upper gravel terrace and hint at activity on the lower, alongside the marshland, river and Blackwater estuary. They attest to relatively dispersed settlement, agricultural exploitation and funerary uses of the landscape, perhaps taking a more settled form in the Iron Age with the imposition of recognisable land division, including field systems. Includes specialist reports on: |
| Year of Publication: |
2001
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| Subjects / Periods: |
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Settlement Sites
(BIAB)
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FUNERARY SITE
(Monument Type England)
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| Neolithic (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| Prehistoric (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| Funerary (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Field Systems (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Bronze Age (Auto Detected Temporal) |
| Middle Iron Age (Auto Detected Temporal) |
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SETTLEMENT
(Monument Type England)
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| Iron Age (Auto Detected Temporal) |
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| Note: |
[OS TL 847082]
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| Source: |
BIAB
(The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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| Created Date: |
23 Apr 2004 |
