Cropmarks of a possible Iron Age subrectangular enclosure and five ring ditches, Cropmarks south of Hall Wood (EHER 5667)

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Cropmarks of a subrectangular enclosure and five ring ditches

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Grid reference	Centred TL 758 058 (558m by 305m)
Civil Parish	DANBURY, CHELMSFORD, ESSEX

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Cropmarks of a subrectangular enclosure and 5 ring ditches-1 is pennanular <1> AP refs: <2>-<5> Pits and part of another subrectangular enclosure (?) seem to be visible on APs and SMR plot <6> Cropmarks of an enclosure, ring-ditches and field boundaries were recorded on aerial photographs in 2019 <15> March 2016. Aerial photograph interpretation. Extensive buried ditches, a rectilinear enclosure, a further enclosure, numerous pit features and a ring ditch indicate a complex multi period buried settlement and funerary landscape at this location which sets context for the site as a whole. <16> Information from NRHE A cropmark of a small enclosure of typical Iron Age form was discovered in 1984. <17>

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<1> SEX19287 DESC TEXT: Clark, E.. unknown. SMR.
<2> SEX19288 Aerial Photograph: Unknown. 1972. BJJ 51.
<3> SEX19289 Aerial Photograph: Unknown. 1976. BWT 14.
<4> SEX19290 Aerial Photograph: CUCAP. 1976. BZK 28.
<5> SEX19291 Aerial Photograph: Unknown. 1979. TL7505-1-201, 203. Date 1979:7.
<6> SEX22419 Map: Ingle, C.J., Strachan, D., Tyler, S. and Saunders, H.. 1993-2017. NMP Cropmark Plot - 1:10,000. paper. 1:10,000. TL70NE.
<7> SEX19293 Aerial Photograph: Unknown. 1976. TL7505-2-92. with TL70-158, Date 1976:6.
<8> SEX19580 Aerial Photograph: NMR. 1976. TL7506/1/94.
<9> SEX65929 Aerial Photograph: CUCAP. 1976 ?. BWT 4.
<10> SEX65930 Aerial Photograph: NMR. unknown. TL7505/23/17.
<11> SEX69438 Aerial Photograph (Digital): Saunders, H.. 2009. EX09_05_004-010.
<12> SEX69727 Aerial Photograph (Digital): Saunders, H.. 2010. EX10/03/006-009.
<13> SEX72640 Aerial Photograph (Digital): Saunders, H.. 2014. EX14/06/070-073.
<14> SEX73314 Aerial Photograph (Digital): Saunders, H.. 2015. EX15/04/030-033.
<15> SEX74143 Aerial Photograph (Digital): Saunders, H.. 2019. EX19/02/057-058.
<16> SEX76034 Report: Cox, C. and Whitcombe, E.. 2016. Hammond’s Farm, Essex: Assessment of Aerial Imagery for Archaeology.
<17> SEX27185 Article in serial: McMaster, I.. 1984. Cropmarks 1984. Colchester Archaeological Group Bulletin. 27. p.9.

Other References

Old SMR Number: TL70-068
NRHE identifier: 879771
National Monuments Record: TL 70 NE 52