Bronze Age barrow cemetery, West of Badley Hall (EHER 2458)

A group of at least eight ring ditches are visible as cropmarks on air photographs. One was dug into in 1964 by R. Hayward, and a tripartite collared urn containing two cremations was found. A short distance to the north west is a cropmark of a broad-ditched U-shaped feature of uncertain date or function. Around 180 metres south east of the main cluster of ring ditches is another small ring ditch with what appear to be three interruptions or causeways in its circuit. See associated monument records for additional information on cropmarks in the Langley area.

Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import. A Tripartite collared urn was dug up in 1964 by R Hayward. It is 17 inches high, 11 inches wide at the rim, 15 inches at the collar, and 5.5 inches at the base. It contained about 6 pints of bones, comprising one adult and one child. <1> has a photo of the urn. <1> <2> <3> It is in Colchester Museum. The urn was being repaired there according to <1>. <4> Cropmarks of a group of five ring ditches were noted from air photographs in 1964. This group of ring ditches appears to represent a Bronze Age barrow cemetery, which may, perhaps, be mirrored by contemporary settlement to the north of the brook. <5> <6>