Roman pit (or shaft) containing finds assemblage and human remains, a quarter of a mile from Great Chesterford (EHER 4926)

A Roman pit excavated by the Hon. R. C. Neville (Lord Braybrooke) in 1847, just over a quarter of a mile from Great Chesterford.

July 1847. Antiquarian excavation. In July 1847 the Hon. R.C. Neville (Lord Braybrooke) excavated a twenty-eight feet deep pit in a field rather more than a quarter of a mile outside the walls of Great Chesterford. The filling contained three Roman coins, domestic objects, sherds (including Upchurch ware), animal bones, limpet and oyster shells and fragments of a human skull. <1> <2> <3> Site Assessment: Deep for a pit - should be a shaft? NRHE data transfer: no new information. Note: The mapped location is a generic 4 figure grid reference and the actual location of the excavation is not known.