Roman farmstead, Springfield Industrial Estate (EHER 16132)

A 1st century Roman farmstead excavated by Mr Tiltesley of the Passmore Edwards Museum. There are finds and photos from the excavation in the Burnham Museum but the archive is lost.

1970s. Archaeological excavation. A site excavated by Mr Tiltesley of the Passmore Edwards Museum. Finds (mainly Roman pottery) were returned to the Burnham-on-Crouch Museum in 1994, but the archive appears to have been lost. Apparently it was a 1st century Roman farmstead, based on a linear field pattern, with some buildings represented by post holes. Photographs in the Burnham Museum suggest deposits buried to a depth of up to a metre (under alluvial silts?). <1> <2> Note: The features excavated here may be those shown as cropmarks and destroyed by housing, see EHER 11338. NRHE data transfer: TQ 944967. Exploration of a ditched enclosure, NW of Burnham on the site of proposed development at the Cherry Garden Industrial Estate, showed the interior to be much disturbed by post Roman quarrying, but yielded evidence of a 1st century settlement. Early in the Roman period the South enclosure ditch had been filled in and a hut constructed over it. There was also 3rd century occupation. <3> <4> NRHE summary description: Excavation of a ditched enclosure provided evidence of 1st and 3rd century Roman settlement. There was also evidence for a hut.