Excavation by J.H. Hope at Boars Head, Braintree, 1986 - EEX39276

A late Iron Age circular house gully was overlain by a series of rectangular building platforms dating from the mid 1st century, and possibly the 2nd century. One fronted a road, flanked by a drainage ditch and another was fronted by a shallow drainage gully. A domestic oven was observed within one of these buildings. A series of pits containing late 2nd to early 3rd century AD pottery cut the northernmost platform. Some evidence of industrial activity is suggested by one feature containing roasting ore and a number of ovens. The most notable finds have been a Nene Valley folded beaker and a Celtic-style bronze penannular ditch with scroll terminals.