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An Interim Report on the Excavation of the Orsett ‘Cock’ Enclosure, Essex: 1976–79

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

H. S. Toller
H. S. Toller
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Institute of Archaeology, London
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The rectangular multivallate enclosure at TQ 6535 8135 has been sampled by excavation and described previously. Further excavation by Essex County Council was undertaken for the Department of the Environment when road construction threatened total destruction. Evidence for settlement was found, which began in the early or middle Iron Age, continued until the late Roman period and was also present in the early Saxon period, FIG. I shows the major features that have been excavated or denned; FIGS. 2 and 3 indicate substantive features during each period.

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Britannia , Volume 11 , November 1980 , pp. 35 - 42
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Copyright © H. S. Toller 1980. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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18 Jobey, G., Arch. Ael. Ser. 4 xliii (1965), 21–64.Google Scholar The author wishes to acknowledge the help of the site supervisors Percival Turnbull, Simon Ellis and Kevin Blockley and all the staff of the Planning Dept., Essex County Council.