Title: |
Archaeology and the Landscape in the Lower Blackwater Valley |
Subtitle: |
East Anglian Archaeology 82 |
Series: |
East Anglian Archaeology
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Volume: |
82
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Number of Pages: |
246 |
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Licence Type: |
ADS Terms of Use and Access
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Publication Type: |
Monograph (in Series)
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Abstract: |
This report presents the results from three excavations in the lower Blackwater valley. The sites were identified as cropmarks on aerial photographs and were excavated in advance of large-scale gravel extraction. All three sites revealed evidence of changing landscape use. The cropmarks belong to an extensive series running along much of the north side of the Blackwater estuary, and results from other sites and recent excavations are included in the discussion which forms the final chapter of the report. The main discoveries at Slough House Farm were a Neolithic enclosure, Iron Age settlement, Saxon timber-lined wells and a Saxon pit containing metalworking debris. At Chigborough Farm, a putative Neolithic building, enclosures and field systems of Late Bronze Age and Iron Age date, and a probable Saxon 'boat-shaped' building were of particular significance. The much smaller site at Howell's Farm revealed a Bronze Age structure and part of an Iron Age settlement. |
Author: |
Steven Wallis
Mags Waughman
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Publisher: |
Essex County Council Planning Department
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Year of Publication: |
1998
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ISBN: |
1852811609 |
Locations: |
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North Side |
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Lower Blackwater Valley |
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Howells Farm |
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Lower Blackwater |
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Slough House Farm |
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Essex |
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Chigborough Farm |
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Blackwater |
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Subjects / Periods: |
Iron Age (Auto Detected Temporal) |
Postmedieval (Auto Detected Temporal) |
1678 Roman (Auto Detected Temporal) |
166 Bronze Age (Auto Detected Temporal) |
Prehistoric (Auto Detected Temporal) |
Neolithic Bronze Age Iron Age Roman (Auto Detected Temporal) |
Roman (Auto Detected Temporal) |
Medieval (Auto Detected Temporal) |
Saxon (Auto Detected Temporal) |
MESOLITHIC
(Historic England Periods)
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Late Iron Age (Auto Detected Temporal) |
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Source: |
ADS Archive
(ADS Archive)
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Created Date: |
21 Jan 2002 |