Early Neolithic occupation site, 'Hullbridge Survey Blackwater Site 8', Bradwell-on-Sea (EHER 13627)

An Early Neolithic site on an old land surface which was interpretated from finds of lithics and pottery.

1984. Hullbridge Survey: field survey. An Early Neolithic site on an old land surface: situated on intertidal flats where an extensive area of lower peat has been eroded off the buried land surface developed upon head. Lithics and pottery came from either the head or from shallow clay-filled immediately on top of the head. Pottery included one rolled rim of Mildenhall ware. Surface finds, both lithics and pottery, were sufficiently abundant to demonstrate this as a habitation site. Other finds included fired clay and charcoal. A charcoal scatter (context 31) was radiocarbon dated to the later Neolithic (4000+ -70BP; HAR-6618) which, judging by the diagnostic pottery post-dated the occupation; another scatter (context 32) dated to the earlier Neolithic (4690 + -70BP, HAR-6617) and may have been associated with the habitation of the site. <1> <2> See also <3>. Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import.