Post-medieval pit and finds at The White House, Kelvedon Hatch (EHER 80814)

The site contains a small number of 19th to 20th century features cut into natural, most of which can be suggested to be related to landscaping, construction or demolition of former and existing buildings.

July 2015. Trial trenching. The site contains a small number of 19th to 20th century features cut into natural, most of which can be suggested to be related to landscaping, construction or demolition of former and existing buildings. The site pottery assemblage represents a single period, the 18th to 20th century, suggesting that prior to then the site was unused for domestic occupation. This date range slightly predates the 19th century construction date for the row of cottages, making it possible that an earlier building had preceded them, the location of which is not recorded. An absence of artefacts predating the 18th to 20th century is possibly partly due to the site's former location on the edge of the Forest of Essex and Kelvedon Hatch Common, since neither of these would have been intensively occupied. <1>