Cheston House, London Road, Great Chesterford, Essex
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TVAS SOUTH Cheston House, London Road, Great Chesterford, Essex Archaeological Evaluation by Odile Rouard Site Code: GCE17/228 (TL 5068 4248) !"#$% & ' ' &' *+-' .-' +' ' ' &' ' +$%3""9 ; ! "" # ++&& $ !< =!-& " > $ % & # ' ( ) & 9 * ' % ( * & $ + ,* - + & -% ( & % ( - & & & # ' ' "? ! "" # ? ..*;@$' + . / $ . / , . / ( I B.D$F I B.D"F I I B.>?F I SITE Colchester Braintree Harlow Chelmsford Basildon 44000 Brentwood Southend-on-Sea 43000 SITE 42000 TL50000 51000 GCE17/228 Cheston House, London Road, Great Chesterford, Essex, 2017 Archaeological Evaluation Figure 1. Location of site within Great Chesterford and Essex. Reproduced from Ordnance Survey Digital Mapping under licence Crown copyright reserved. Scale 1:12500 42600 SITE 42500 42400 TL50600 50700 GCE17/228 N Cheston House, London Road, Great Chesterford, Essex, 2017 Archaeological Evaluation Figure 2. Detailed location of site Reproduced from Ordnance Survey Digital Mapping under licence Crown copyright reserved. Scale 1:1250 42525 2 42500 1 3 Demolished garage 42475 Cheston House 42450 L on d on R o ad TL 50675 50700 50725 GCE 17/228 N Cheston House, London Road, Great Chesterford, Essex, 2017 Archaeological Evaluation Figure 3. Site plan showing excavated trenches. 0 25m Trenches 1 and 2 SW NE 113.14m AOD Topsoil (50) Subsoil (51) Natural geology (Sandy clay with flints) Base of excavation Trench 3 (SW end) SW NE 106.72m Concrete Made ground (52) Subsoil (51) Natural geology (Sandy clay with flints) Base of excavation Trench 3 (NE end) SW NE 106.72m Disturbed topsoil (50) Made ground (52) Subsoil (51) Natural geology (Sandy clay with flints) Base of excavation GCE 17/228 Cheston House, London Road, Great Chesterford, Essex 2017 Archaeological Evaluation Figure 4. Representative sections. 0 1m Plate 1. Trench 1, looking North-east. Plate 2. Trench 2, looking North-west. Scales: 2m, 1m and 0.50m. Scales: 2m, 1m and 0.50m. Plate 3. Trench 3, looking South-west. Plate 4. Trench 3, looking North-east. Scales: 2m, 1m and 0.50m. Scales: 2m, 1m and 0.50m. GCE17/228 Cheston House, London Road, Great Chesterford, Essex, 2017 Archaeological Evaluation Plates 1 - 4. TIME CHART Calendar Years Modern AD 1901 Victorian AD 1837 Post Medieval AD 1500 Medieval AD 1066 Saxon AD 410 Roman AD 43 AD 0 BC Iron Age 750 BC Bronze Age: Late 1300 BC Bronze Age: Middle 1700 BC Bronze Age: Early 2100 BC Neolithic: Late 3300 BC Neolithic: Early 4300 BC Mesolithic: Late 6000 BC Mesolithic: Early 10000 BC Palaeolithic: Upper 30000 BC Palaeolithic: Middle 70000 BC Palaeolithic: Lower 2,000,000 BC TVAS (South), 77a Hollingdean Terrace Brighton, BN1 7HB Tel: 01273 554198 Email: [email protected] Web: www.tvas.co.uk/south Offices in: Reading, Taunton, Stoke-on-Trent and Ennis (Ireland).