Roman gully or rubbish pit at the Country Club Site (GC21), Great Chesterford (EHER 17432)

Excavations adjacent to the south wall of the churchyard found a gully or rubbish pit containing a 1st-4th century finds assemblage, including a 1st century coin of Vespasian.

May-July 1996. Trial trenching. Excavation close to the south wall of the churchyard by the Great Chesterford Archaeology group exposed either the end of a gully or a rubbish pit. It contained Romano - British artefacts including one 1st century Vespasian Bronze coin, part of a Samian mortarium bowl and other items ranging from 2nd to 4th century. The pottery included Lake Shell Tempered ware. <1> - <2> Trench 5 was a 1m-square test pit located in the north-west corner of the site. Approximately 0.5m of topsoil contained a mix of modern and Roman pottery, tile fragments, animal bone, worked flint, oyster shell and a bronze coin of Vespasian (AD 69–79). In one corner was a portion of a right-angled pit containing animal bones, oyster and snail shells, metalwork, pot sherds (mainly coarse grey ware, but also a samian mortarium base and rim), dating to the 2nd–3rd centuries AD. <3>