Council for British Archaeology Group 6 Bulletin 35

A number of reports on work undertaken in 1989 and 1990 by the Norfolk Archaeological Unit, the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, the Great Yarmouth & District Archaeological Society, Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society, and the Young Archaeologists' Club, Norfolk branch. MH

Fourteen hillforts are now known in Essex, of which only three are in hilltop positions. Only eight of these have been satisfactorily dated, with one originating in the Late Bronze Age, three during the Early Iron Age, and four during the Middle Iron Age. Only one hillfort, Uphall Camp, has been investigated on a large scale. In contrast, over a thousand enclosures have been identified from aerial photographs, though not all belong to the Iron Age. MH

Following the discovery by metal detector of a hoard of broken metalwork buried in a bronze vessel, the topsoil was stripped over a large area and metal detectors used to identify anomalies. Subsequent excavation recovered a further five hoards, together with a further selection of finds apparently from other hoards. The finds included sixty-three torcs of gold, gold/silver, silver and bronze with six types of torc represented. They are dated to the first half of the first century BC, perhaps c 70 BC. MH