Medieval features, land to the South of Oak Hill Road (EHER 82950)

Medieval features consisting of a ditch, a gully terminus and a possible occupation layer, alongside a moderately large assemblage of pottery suggests an area of occupation-related land use during the high medieval period. Additionally, the presence of high status glazed wares indicate links to Pyrgo Palace (EHER 560) to the east-southeast, or Havering Palace (EHER 557), further south.

2025. Evaluation by trial trenching. Medieval features consisting of a ditch, a gully terminus and a possible occupation layer, alongside a moderately large assemblage of pottery suggests an area of occupation-related land use during the high medieval period. The presence of glazed ware sherds implies some degree of affluence, perhaps suggesting that the dumped material is possibly from the pre-Tudor residence on the site of Pyrgo Palace (EHER 560), east-southeast of the current site. The ditch in Trench 10 and gully terminus in Trench 13 are positioned perpendicular to one another, which suggests that they form part of the same field system. The ditch correlates to a known former field boundary located on the 1845 Tithe Map, which is no longer in use by the 1873 OS map recording, thus demonstrating that part of this medieval system survived into the first half of the 19th century. Information from <1>.