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A Bronze Age Urnfield on Vinces Farm Ardleigh, Essex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2014

F. H. Erith  and
I. H. Longworth
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Ardleigh lies midway between Colchester on the River Colne, and Manningtree on the estuary of the Stour, the distance from each place being about four miles. Vinces Farm covers an area roughly half a mile to a mile south of Ardleigh church on the road to Great Bromley. The farm lies on a plateau, 110 feet above sea level, and has no particular geographical feature other than its flatness. The soil is a medium loam over gravel and requires no artificial drainage. Grid Ref. TL/056284.

The land has been under arable cultivation for centuries, but not until 1955 was a deep-digging plough introduced, ploughing to a depth of a foot or more. In September of that year the plough brought up sherds of Roman pottery in the Long Eleven Acres field (O.S. 716) and with these, sherds of Bronze Age ware.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 26 , December 1960 , pp. 178 - 192
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1960

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page 187 note 1 D 3 may also be nearer to a bucket than globular form.

page 187 note 2 For references to this and other sites mentioned, see Table II.

page 187 note 3 Wix has been included as a ‘Rusticated urn’, the rustication on this vessel being produced by vigorous application of a coarse toothed comb.

page 187 note 4 The urns in question are now lost but were said to have had imitation rope handles. Information kindly supplied by Mr M. R. Hull, F.S.A.

page 189 note 1 E.g., Belton, , Arch. J., XCGoogle Scholar, pl. xvi B.

page 189 note 2 E.g., Heath, Puddleton, BAP, IIGoogle Scholar, fig. 424a.

page 189 note 3 12th Rep. London Institute, 43 ff.

page 189 note 4 Rinyo-Clacton, : PPS, II, 178–210Google Scholar; Piggott, Neolithic Cultures of the British Isles, Appendix C; Unpublished material, e.g., Dales Road Brickfield, Ipswich (Ipswich Museum), Lawford (Colchester Museum).

Rusticated Ware: Essex, e.g., Lion Point, Clacton, Walton and Dovercourt, , PPS, II, 189Google Scholar, fig. 3. 1, 2, 3 and 5. Suffolk: e.g., Edmunds, Bury St., PSIA, XXVII, 2Google Scholar, fig. 15; Butley, , PSIA, XXV, 2, 207–8Google Scholar; Fifty Farm, Mildenhall, , CAS, XXXV, 126Google Scholar, pl. ii; Gt. Barton, Fox, Arch. of Cam. Reg., 26Google Scholar, pl. ii, 3; Farm, Plantation, Hill, Shippea, Ant. J., XIIIGoogle Scholar, pl. xliv, 9.

page 189 note 5 Ant. J., XVI, 42Google Scholar, fig. 8. A survival of Beaker tradition was suggested to explain this feature.

page 189 note 6 Ibid., figs. 5. 10, 6. 1–2, 7. 2–3.

page 189 note 7 Ibid., fig. 5. 13.

page 189 note 8 Ibid., fig. 6. 2.

page 189 note 9 PPSEA, VI, 359Google Scholar, fig. 23, made in this instance with a rocker stamp.

page 189 note 10 E.g. Lion Point, Clacton, PPS, II, 189Google Scholar, fig. 3.5; Gt. Barton, Fox, op. cit., pl. ii, 3.

page 190 note 1 Base rusticated.

page 191 note 1 One rusticated sherd.

page 191 note 2 At the angle of the base.

page 192 note 1 See note 4 p. 187.

page 192 note 2 Rustication made with a comb.