Watching brief by John Newman Archaeological Services at Eckard House, Witham, 2014 - EEX59455

NRHE data transfer: Monitoring of ground works for the creation of a new car park for the railway station within the south-eastern part of Chipping Hill Fort was limited to the deeper excavations as 20th century use of the site had truncated the upper levels. In total four soakaway pits and an interceptor pit were monitored and one of the former pits revealed a large north-east/south-west aligned ditch which was on the correct orientation to represent a previously unknown inner defensive line for the later pre-historic period fort on its south-eastern side. While the fill of the ditch was very clean one sherd of late Iron Age pottery was recovered from it. The other monitored interventions only revealed evidence of later post-medieval pitting.