Colchester Archaeological Trust
CAT Report 988: summary
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Archaeological evaluation on land to the west of Granta Cottages, Newmarket Road, Great Chesterford, Essex, CB10 1PE: July 2016
by Laura Pooley
(with contributions from Stephen Benfield, Pip Parmenter)
Date report completed: November 2016
Location: land to the west of Granta Cottages, Newmarket Road, Great Chesterford, Essex, CB10 1PE
Map reference(s): TL 50390 42776 (c)
File size: 22,562 kb
Project type: Archaeological evaluation
Significance of the results: **
Keywords: Roman, town, wall, robber-trench
Summary.
An archaeological evaluation by trial-trenching was carried out on land to the west of Granta Cottages, Newmarket Road, Great Chesterford, Essex in advance of the construction of a new
dwelling. The development site lies within the south-western corner of the site of the scheduled Roman town. The evaluation revealed the remains of a large (2m-wide) robber-trench, aligned south-west to north-east. Probably representing the 4th-century Roman town wall, the robber-trench appears to be on the same alignment as part of a wall foundation identified in 2013 at No 4 Granta Cottages. Three Roman pits, two undated pits and an undated linear feature, possibly a ditch, were also excavated.