Roman pottery at Wharf Road, Stanford-Le-Hope (EHER 80885)

Roman and medieval to post-medieval pottery was recovered from a small post-medieval gully.

April 2019. Watching brief. Despite being located in an archaeologically-sensitive area, only a single feature – a post-medieval gully – was uncovered. This general paucity of archaeological features across the site might be the consequence of industrial activity and topsoil stripping, which, as within the area immediately to the east evaluated by CAT in 2009, may have truncated any deposits which may have been present. The considerable level of modern disturbance evident in T3 lends weight to this speculation. The gully which was uncovered yielded three sherds of medieval to post-medieval pottery, indicating some degree of activity at the site during this period. Two sherds of Roman pottery were also recovered during excavations, adding to the already considerable evidence of Roman activity within the area, most notably, the two salt production sites previously excavated to the south of the site, near to the foreshore. It should be noted, however, that no evidence of salt manufacture was found during this investigation. <1>