Geophysical Survey by CgMs at Land at Bata Field, East Tilbury, Thurrock - EEX55945

A sample 5ha block of land was surveyed in order to define the full extent of the postulated BA enclosure. A few isolated responses were recorded and it was not considered productive to extend the cover of the survey to the whole of the site. From NRHE: A single relatively weak but well defined rectilinear ditch type anomaly was recorded, and was a continuation of the ditch identified by previous geophysics and excavation [interpreted as part of a Bronze Age enclosure]. The returning [north and east] arms of the enclosure had not been located and no comparably definitive archaeological anomalies were identified anywhere else in the survey. A few isolated short linear responses and weak trends were tentatively highlighted as possible archaeology, but this was based more on their proximity to known excavated features than on the form and pattern of the geophysical responses themselves. Based on these results, the survey was not extended to cover the whole of the site.