Seventeenth to eighteenth century building remains at land rear of 59 Bridge Street, Witham (EHER 80143)

A brick foundation wall, only one bonded course deep, with abutting bricks laid flat to form a floor at a depth of 0.5m. The wall is thought to correspond to a building at the site on the 1st Edition OS Map, and the age of the bricks date the structure to the 17th to 18th centuries.

October 2021. Trial trenching. The evaluation trench revealed a brick foundation wall, only one bonded course deep, with abutting bricks laid flat to form a floor at a depth of 0.5m. The single bonded brick course consisted of hand-made red bricks with inclusions and with a lime mortar, which suggests a date of no later than 1860, as modern concrete had been introduced by then. It was located within a wall trench cut, and filled by a mid-grey sandy deposit, which contained no finds. The wall is thought to correspond to a building at the site on the 1st Edition OS Map, and the age of the bricks date the structure to the 17th to 18th centuries. <1>