Post-medieval features, land east of St Edmunds Lane, Great Dunmow (EHER 80995)

No secure date, origin or function can be assigned to the disparate range of features excavated.

October to November 2023. Trial trenching. No secure date, origin or function can be assigned to the disparate range of features excavated in Trenches 4 and 11 and identified more widely across the central part of the site. The few fragments of broadly medieval to post-medieval roof tile collected from the surfaces of some of the features in Trench 11 following machine stripping were possibly intrusive, as the result of deep ploughing or subsoiling. Alternatively, the silty upper fills of some of the features, from which the CBM was recovered, might have been the slumped remains of a more extensive, post-medieval subsoil horizon that elsewhere was removed by modern ploughing. Notably, small fragments of post-medieval CBM were observed widely on the surface of the ploughsoil, together with lesser amounts of post-medieval and modern pottery. <1>