Roman wall foundation (north wall of Second Walled Enclosure) at All Saints Churchyard, Great Chesterford (EHER 83289)

Trial trenching recorded a substantial wall foundation built of flint and mortar, which extended for 2.6m into the churchyard.

Possibly 1986. Trial trenching. Trenches 2a and 2b. These were at right-angles to the northern boundary wall of the churchyard. They cut through a bank of topsoil 0.5–0.7m high, below which was a layer of light sandy soil containing mortar from the construction of the wall. Below this was a substantial wall foundation built of flint and mortar to a depth of 0.3m. This foundation extended 2.6m into the churchyard. <1> Note: Elsewhere in source <1>, an alternative description is given of this intervention, describing the work as having been carried out in 1996. The description of the work suggests the feature discussed is probably that described above. See <2> below: 'Collins had, in 1996, put in a trench mid-way along the northern side of the churchyard which identified a substantial foundation of flint and mortar, the latter containing fragments of opus signinum (presumably reused from elsewhere), about 3m wide, under the churchyard wall (Gazetteer 119)'. <2>