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Excavations at a Neolithic Causewayed Enclosure, Orsett, Essex, 1975

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2014

John Hedges ,
David Buckley ,
C. Bonsall ,
I. A. Kinnes ,
J. C. Barrett ,
P. J. Drury ,
M. C. Wadhams ,
C. Cartwright ,
R. N. L. B. Hubbard  and
J. Evans
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David Buckley
Affiliation:
Archaeology Section, Planning Department, Essex County Council, County Hall, Chelmsford, Essex
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Summary

The Causewayed Enclosure at Orsett, Essex, was trial trenched in 1975 to determine the state of site preservation and confirm its postulated Neolithic date and site sequence. The enclosure consisted of three incomplete circuits of discontinuous ditch with an associated timber palisade slot lying inside and concentric to the middle ditch. Within the interior was an oval post hole structure of a contemporary date. Quantities of Mildenhall style pottery and flint artifacts of the mid third millennium b.c. were recovered from the primary ditch silts and other features. A small quantity of Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age wares came from the secondary ditch silts and the interior.

Later phases on the site were represented by unenclosed Early Iron Age occupation, a Middle Iron Age sub-rectangular enclosure and Saxon ring-ditch burials.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 44 , December 1978 , pp. 219 - 308
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1978

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