Iron Age hearth feature and finds, South Essex College, Grays (EHER 48164)

Trial trenching over 7.7 ha found a couple of prehistoric features including a probable Iron Age hearth-type feature. It is now under housing

Evaluation, 2012 An archaeological evaluation was undertaken over the remaining undisturbed 7.7ha portion of a proposed development area at South Essex College in Thurrock. The thirty one trenches excavated identified two former field boundaries and an isolated discrete feature in the eastern part of the site. The latter contained a probable Iron Age hearth-type feature comprising of heat affected soil, pottery, grain and charcoal and is likely to be Iron Age in date. It was sealed beneath a soil horizon which extended across the north-eastern half of the site. This horizon was not observed in the western part of the DA and is likely to have been subsequently truncated through modern landscaping. <1>