Summary

During excavation of neolithic cursus, east end, 2 adjacent features were excavated and proved to be medieval in date.

Full description

During excavation of neolithic cursus, east end, 2 adjacent features were excavated and proved to be medieval in date. The features showed on APs, and were located, to the east of the cursus. They comprised a ditch with V-shaped profile and an oval-shaped pit. The ditch produced later medieval pottery, iron, fired clay, flints, animal bone and charcoal. The pit cut the ditch but neither feature is likely to predate the 13th-14th centuries. The ditch alignment corresponded with the general alignment of field boundaries in the area and the pit was probably "no more than a source of sand and gravel at the edge of a field". Medieval pottery also came from the topsoil-cursus ditch interface. 4 medieval fabrics are represented and these were compared to the Writtle sequence, and a find from Hadleign. 2 of the fabrics could be compared to 15th-early 16th century fabrics, a third to a late 13th-early 14th century one and the fourth to one dated at Writtle as pre 1300 (though residual to c1350). Other finds included parts of iron nails, waste flint, bone <1> <2> Plan of features in SMR <3>

unknown, unknown, unknown (Photograph). SEX57849.

<1> Buckley, DG, unknown, SMR (DESC TEXT). SEX138.

<2> Hedges, JD and Buckley, DG, unknown, Excavations at the Springfield Cropmark Complex...Medieval Features.. 1979 (EXCAV REPORT). SEX19629.

<3> Hedges, John D, 1979, Springfield Cursus. East Terminal (MENTION). SEX19630.

Monument Types

• DITCH (late medieval, Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
• PIT (late medieval, Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Associated Finds

• ANIMAL REMAINS (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
• NAIL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
• PLANT REMAINS (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
• VESSEL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
• VESSEL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
• VESSEL (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)

Associated Events

• SALV EXCAV by Hedges, JD and Buckley, DG, (Ref: ?)

Protected Status

• Historic Environment Character Zone: Chelmsford 2.14
• Historic Environment Character Area: Chelmsford 2
• Conservation Area: Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation (CHELMSFORD)
• Historic Environment Character Zone: Chelmsford 4.2
• Historic Environment Character Zone: Chelmsford 4.1
• Historic Environment Character Area: Chelmsford 4
• Historic Environment Character Zone: Chelmsford 2.11

Sources and further reading

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Images

SPRINGFIELD Pease Hall Farm , cropmarks; enclosure ect © Essex County Council	Springfield Cursus, Springfield, Chelmsford © Essex County Council
Springfield Lyons, Springfield, Chelmsford © Essex County Council	Springfield Lyons, Springfield, Chelmsford © Essex County Council
Springfield Lyons, Springfield, Chelmsford © Essex County Council	Springfield Lyons, Springfield, Chelmsford © Essex County Council
Springfield Lyons, Springfield, Chelmsford © Essex County Council	Springfield Lyons, Springfield, Chelmsford © Essex County Council
Springfield Lyons, Springfield, Chelmsford © Essex County Council	Springfield Lyons, Springfield, Chelmsford © Essex County Council
Springfield Cursus, Springfield, Chelmsford © Essex County Council	Springfield Cursus, Springfield, Chelmsford © Essex County Council
Springfield Cursus, Springfield, Chelmsford © Essex County Council

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