Post-medieval field system, Maldon Road and Wood Corner, Witham (EHER 80928)

Post-medieval ditches and gullies demonstrated the remains of a field system.

November 2013 to March 2014. Watching brief. Post-medieval remains were found just to the south of the Hatfield Road/Maldon Road junction in the form of irregular gully. This was at first assumed to be an old tree root channel but excavation found several sherds of 16th century pottery, so it is more likely to be a crude drainage channel, though no other contemporary features were discovered in this area. Elements of the post-medieval field system were found at Wood Corner in the form of a ditch, dated to the mid 18th to early 19th century, which appears contemporary with undated an ditch that runs perpendicular to it, suggesting they form the corner of a field just to the east of the cable trench. <1>