Post-medieval agricultural features at Eddystone Avenue, Saffron Walden (EHER 81350)

Two ditches, a pit and, a pond containing late 19th to early 20th century rubbish and scrap metal relate to the agricultural land use of the site in the late postmedieval to modern period. This is likely to be associated with the adjacent Shire Hill Farm.

2021. Trial trenching. Forty-one trial trenches were investigated across the 70,520sqm evaluation area. Archaeological remains were recorded in six trenches and comprised a small number of linear ditches, a gully, two pits, and a pond, mostly located in the south-west of the evaluated area. Two ditches, a pit and, a pond containing late 19th to early 20th century rubbish and scrap metal relate to the agricultural land use of the site in the late postmedieval to modern period. This is likely to be associated with the adjacent Shire Hill Farm. <1>