Land adjacent to St Nicholas' Church, Great Wakering (EHER 18258)

Trial trenching recorded Roman ditches, an oven or kiln and a human cremation. Subsequent excavation recorded a last 1st century BC cemetery which was in use until the 2nd century AD. It contained at least 19 burials.

September 1998. Trial trenching. Most of the material recovered represented evidence of settlement during the Roman period including a number of boundary/drainage ditches, and oven/kiln and a human cremation. <1> June-September 2000. Archaeological excavation. Most of the pottery, where datable, belonged to the early and mid Roman periods. Roman features included a cemetery probably established during the last quarter of the 1st century BC and continued in use at least until the 2nd century AD. 19 burials were identified, 13 had associated pottery vessels. Metalwork includes a trumpet brooch. Other finds included fragments of puddingstone and lava quernstone and vessel glass. <2>