Colchester Archaeological Trust

CAT Report 2031: summary

Archaeological evaluation at The Sun and Anchor, The Street, Steeple, Essex, CM0 7RH: February 2024
by Dr Elliott Hicks (with contributions from Dr Matthew Loughton & Laura Pooley)

Date report completed: March 2024
Location: The Sun and Anchor, The Street, Steeple, Essex, CM0 7RH
Map reference(s): TL 93580 02987 (centre)
File size: 8,118 kb
Project type: evaluation
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Summary. An archaeological evaluation (five trial-trenches) was carried out at The Sun and Anchor, The Street, Steeple, Essex, in advance of the construction of a new residential development. The site lies in the midst of numerous historic buildings and west of two Late Iron Age or Roman ‘red hills’ and the purported location of a medieval castle. Excavations at the site revealed a Bronze Age or Early Iron Age tree-throw, the foundations of an 18th- or 19th-century building depicted on late 19th-century Ordnance Survey mapping of the area, and two ditches and a pit, all of which were modern and likely the product of agricultural activity