Late Bronze Age to Middle Iron Age settlement on land East of Tilkey Road, Coggeshall (EHER 80158)

Excavation revealed a significant Middle Iron Age settlement consisting of three roundhouses and one four-post structure, with some activity (possibly focussed to the North of the site) beginning in the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age.

February 2018. Archaeological evaluation. Evaluation revealed a Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age ditch terminus aligned E-W in Trench 2, a small Middle Iron Age posthole in Trench 3, a Middle Iron Age pit in Trench 4, and a Middle Iron Age ditch aligned N-S in Trench 5. The features yielded a significant assemblage of pottery and a small number of other finds. <1> June 2018. Archaeological excavation. Excavation revealed a significant Middle Iron Age settlement/farmstead consisting of three roundhouses and one four-post structure, with some activity (possibly focussed to the North of the site) beginning in the Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age. The small post hole investigated at the evaluation stage is part of four-post structure which likely functioned as a granary and indicates that cereal crops or legumes were being grown on or near to the site. Faunal remains suggest that cattle and sheep/goat were being kept, fragments of possible loom weight indicates activities like weaving, and the pottery is probably from a domestic assemblage. <2>