SEX74267 - Radwinter Throssels Report

In August 2018 and in March and April 2019 Archaeology RheeSearch Group carried out magnetometry and resistivity surveys on this site at the request of the owners.The magnetometry results show a clear difference in the magnetic responses on the two sides of the field including the lack of one side of what would appear to be the ditch of an enclosure. Within the magnetometry results, and clearly within the resistivity results, are parts of a curve which might be concentric.The strong magnetic signals of the irregular and incomplete enclosure ditch post date and respect the earlier trackway leading from the triangular corner feature across the survey area which extrapolates to the E—W road passing through the village just after the last stream crossing point. This enclosure ditch bears some resemblance to that detected about 700 m away to the SE at Hill Farm (deposited with Essex HER). This possibly represents a Roman field system with a later Anglo Saxon defensible farmstead, given the approximately 2 m width of the enclosure ditch. The cluster of magnetic features in the middle of the enclosure may be a well or water source system allowing a farmstead to be located on higher ground away from the nearby streams.