Iron Age pottery and possible occupation, Muckingford Lane, East Tilbury (EHER 1748)

A Bronze Age disc barrow with possible Early Iron Age occupation. The Bronze Age phase is detailed in EHER 1748. Excavation of a bronze age barrow-occupation and levelling of part of the barrow was found, "with pottery, burnt clay, and wood in ditch infill.

Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import. Bronze Age disc barrow first seen as crop marks of two concentric circles 100 ft and 35 ft diameter. Excavations, 1959-1960 Excavations in 1959 confirmed the two ditches and a central cairn of large pebbles. Removal of the cairn revealed an inverted cinerary urn standing on a saddle quern containing the calcined bones of an adult and child. Further excavations the following year identified occupation and levelling of part of the barrow with pottery, burnt clay, and wood in ditch infill. The Bronze Age phase is detailed in EHER 1748 The pottery was thought to be Iron Age.<1> <2> <3> <4> Finds in Thurrock Museum. <5> The East Tilbury burial is recorded as being Early Bronze Age or transitional. An urn containing a double cremation and a segmented Faience bead, inverted over a saddle quern was buried in a cylindrical flint `cist' within a double ring ditch. <6> Site Assessment = Accession numbers if finds in Thurrock Museum?