Roman pottery and undated quarry pit at White Court, Braintree Road, Shalford (EHER 80262)

The only archaeological feature found during evaluation was a large pit, possibly a quarry pit. The absence of datable finds recovered from this feature preclude its confident dating.

January 2018. Trial trenching. The only archaeological feature found during evaluation was a large pit, possibly a quarry pit. The absence of datable finds recovered from this feature preclude its confident dating. Sherds of pottery broadly dated to the Roman period retrieved from a layer sealing this feature permit its tentative dating as prehistoric or Roman, but it is quite possible that these artefacts are residual finds in a later context, and that the feature itself is post-Roman in date. In the absence of accurate dating evidence, it is not possible to speculate on the relationship of this feature to the multi-period historic landscape of the wider area. <1>