Late Bronze Age pits, land opposite St Margaret's Church, Maldon Road (EHER 81786)

Trial trenching in 2023 recorded a pit which produced 24 sherds of Late Bronze Age pottery, deriving from a single vessel, possibly an urn. A subsequent excavation in the same year recorded two further pits which were assumed to be of the same date.

September 2023. Trial trenching. A Bronze Age pit at the eastern end of Trench 17. It was sub-circular in plan, steep-sided with a concave base and a narrow V-shaped profile. Twenty-four sherds of pottery deriving from a single vessel, possibly an urn, and likely dating to the Late Bronze Age, were recovered. The pit also produced 19 pieces of worked flint which, although not typologically diagnostic, appears to represent waste from the latter stages of the production of a tool. <1> November 2023. Archaeological excavation. A small excavation area targeted the pit recorded during the evaluation. Two additional pits were identified. Although no further pottery was recovered, the proximity suggest that they could be contemporary. This is further indication of some small-scale pre-historic activity. <2>