Watching Brief by John Newman Archaeological Services, Leez Priory, Hartford End, Great Leighs, 2011 - EEX56746

Monitoring of groundworks for a new sewerage system involving some 200m of pipe trench and a large pit for a tank in the south eastern quarter of the scheduled area revealed a large, brick built, culvert which is linked to an existing conduit head, three brick and tile lined land drains, three possible areas of infilled pond and a group of three dumped timbers. The brick built features are of probable late medieval to earlier Post medieval date as is the fill within two of the possible pond areas while the third pond area is more likely to have filled in the later 19th century period. The dumped timbers were within the latter of the likely infilled ponds where the new tank has been placed in the valley base.