Middle to Late Bronze Age pits and finds assemblage, 39-45 Crescent Road (EHER 81891)

Archaeological excavation in 2002 recorded Middle Bronze Age worked flints and a pit which yielded a bucket urn. In the north of the site was a truncated possible cremation pit which contained a Late Bronze Age cremation vessel. Several features contained residual Late Bronze Age material and it is thought that Late Bronze Age features had probably been truncated by Roman and modern activity.

August-October 2002. Archaeological excavation. Scrapers of Bronze Age date were recovered from the topsoil. The earliest feature may have been a pit in the northwest of the site, from which the greater part of a Middle Bronze Age bucket urn was recovered. There does not seem to be a cremation burial associated with this vessel and no other diagnostic material of this date was recovered from the site. Late Bronze Age material included a cremation vessel, also from the northwest of the site, which lay in a truncated possible cremation pit. This measured 0.52m east-west by 0.37m north-south. The northwest quadrant of the site was much truncated by Roman (EHER 47131) and modern activity, and it is likely that further early features had thus been removed. Two pits, situated within the area enclosed by a later curvilinear, contained pottery of Late Bronze Age date, though both are likely to have been features of later date. Several other features contained residual Late Bronze Age material. <1> Note: The material described in this record may be associated with the settlement at Elms Farm, see EHER 81912.