Early to Middle Bronze Age pits, Barling Hall Quarry, Barling Magna (EHER 9877)

Watching briefs and archaeological excavation in 1977 recorded two Bronze Age pits. Each produced a single sherd of Deverel-Rimbury bucket urn. One of these pits was later radiocarbon dated to the Early to Middle Bronze Age.

1977. Watching brief and archaeological excavation. Several features of Bronze Age date were recorded. Area 2, feature 3, a small roughly circular pit 0.55m in diameter and approximately 1.0m deep contained a heavy scatter of charcoal and a fair number of burnt flints also pottery including a Deverel-Rimbury bucket urn sherd. Area 2, feature 4, a roughly circular pit 1.5m in diameter also produced sherds of Middle Bronze Age date, including a small Deverel-Rimbury bucket urn sherd. <1> Note: The features may have appeared as a cropmark prior to excavation, see EHER 11343. <2> states that a radiocarbon date was obtained for 'pit with Deverel Rimbury sherds' (presumed to be feature 3 or 4 above). The date range given was , 3290~90 B.P. (lab. Ref. BM 1631). OxCal gives this as 1775BC to 1396BC (at 93.2%) or 1873BC to 1326BC (at 95.4%).