Excavation by King Edward VI Grammar School Students, South of Rembrandt House (High Hedges), Little Waltham, Chelmsford, 1956 - EEX20538

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Grid reference	TL 707 118 (point)
Map sheet	TL71SW
Civil Parish	LITTLE WALTHAM, CHELMSFORD, ESSEX

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EXCAVATION

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King Edward VI Grammar School Hist Assoc

Date

01 Jan 1956 - 31 Dec 1956

Description

A copy of the typescript report is at Colchester & Essex Museum in M R Hull's 'Essex Topography' Files. Finds are lost. After a small Romano British flagon was found by the landowner, while planting shrubs, boys from King Edward VI School, Chelmsford, excavated in the field south of the house, now known as 'High Hedges' east of the Chelmsford road in 1956.

Sources

--- SEX20520 Excavation Report: Drury, P.J.. 1978. Excavations at Little Waltham 1970-71. p. 47.
--- SEX20541 Article in serial: Barritt, E.E. and Kettle, B.M.. 1962. Notes on the Romano-British Archaeology of Chelmsford and District. Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society. p. 166.

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NRHE UID: 637777

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