Middle Bronze Age worked flints, Whitehall Lodge, Whitehall Lane, Grays (EHER 14578)

A trial trench was excavated at the northern end of the Orsett Road Pit, a disused brickearth quarry on the south side of the site, to evaluate the possible survival of deposits containing Clactonian material. Uncovered were worked flints including two cores and three flakes Middle Bronze Age or later in date.

Evaluation, 1993 A trial trench was excavated at the northern end of the Orsett Road Pit, a disused brickearth quarry on the south side of the site, to evaluate the possible survival of deposits containing Clactonian material. The trial trench located brickearth deposits running northwards from the brick pit, but they contained no Clactonian material themselves and are stratigraphically later than the main source of Clactonian material, the gravel lying up against the edge of the Thanet sand. This critical strata was not located within the trench although it is highly probable that they survive further north, possibly even in the northern half of the site. Five pieces of worked flint were recovered from the site and included two cores and three flakes, none of which are diagnostic tool or core types and are likely to be either Middle Bronze Age or later in date (after around 1600 BC). <1>