Undated features, Broomfield Plantation (EHER 1908)

Some of the features and finds encountered during excavation of three ring ditches could not be dated. These included pits, post-holes and hollows as well as a cobbled trackway.

The site was excavated in advance of their destruction by sand quarrying in 1984 Of the features and find formed during excavation of three ring ditches a number could not be dated. They included: pits and post holes, within and outside the ring ditches, a shallow scoop, a ditch cut by a later linear ditch and by a ring ditch, two pieces of burnt daub, a cobbled trackway. Some of the pits produced flintwork and pottery, all of which could be residual. The trackway was of gravel flint cobbling and was covered by red fired clay. This had not been burnt 'in situ' and was presumably used as levelling. The trackway could not be related to any other feature and there were no finds. <1> Finds to Colchester Museum. <2> Site Assessment = Accession numbers? Information from the NRHE data transfer. The NRHE suggests that that the features are somewhat enigmatic and may be prehistoric, Iron Age and late Saxon/Medieval.