Excavation by M. Germany, 31 Mildmay Road, Chelmsford, 2008 - EEX55758

Three trial trenches were dug in an area due of Chelmsford for residential development in the north east sector of Roman Chelmsford. The trenches uncovered a series of backfilled pits thought to have been located to the rear of an area of settlement by the Roman road in the mid 2nd to 3rd centuries. They were probably originally dug as gravel quarries and later backfilled with domestic rubbish. One pit is identified as a well which was sealed by an extensive rubbish deposit in the late 3rd to early 4th century. The site declined in the 4th century.