Watching brief by Pre-Construct Archaeology at Dengie Crops Ltd, Hall Road, Asheldham, 2013 - EEX56565

Archaeological monitoring during construction of pad for new crop-store. The archaeological monitoring exercise involved the controlled machine-stripping of the development area in order to define and record any archaeological deposits exposed, with a particular emphasis on assessing the presence, nature and date of a ditch that was known from aerial photographs to run northwest to southeast across the site. NRHE data transfer: Site code: AMDC13. This document details the results of archaeological monitoring exercise commissioned by Colin Watson for Dengie Crops Ltd. in advance of construction work for a new manufacturing storage building and access at the Dengie Crops LTD. site at Asheldham, Essex. The archaeological monitoring exercise involved the archaeologically controlled striping of the development area to ascertain the location of surviving archaeology, and then the excavation and recording of the surviving features to characterize the remains. The excavation found the location of the ditch has indicated by aerial photographs running NW-SE across the site which was it seems in use from Early Iron Age, Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods, the majority of the site however was heavily truncated by modern quarrying removing any trace of earlier archaeological horizons. Information from OASIS Online Form.