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Archaeology Summary for Goldhanger The locations below are shown on the… Interative map |
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HER - Essex Historic Environment Records, see links to... Listed Buildings and Monuments Local - indicates
knowledge from local sources (documents in local archives) Web - indicates information from the
internet (extracts in local archives)
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playing field |
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Barrow, burial & earthworks |
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Bounds Farm |
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Roman midden, saltern,
broken Sagger, etc. see… Salt
extraction in the Blackwater |
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Bounds Farm Sailing Club site |
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Roman
pottery, Samian ware, large jars with rolled rims. Crop-marks showing at
Bounds Farm Redhill excavated in 1908.
One of the many local Redhills. |
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Joyces Creek |
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Prehistoric settlement, Redhill
excavated, flints |
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Hand axe, Neolithic worked flints & pottery |
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Mesolithic dated worked flints with serrated blades |
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Two line of posts, date unknown |
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Decoy Ponds one with
eight “pipes” |
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Site of Fish
Pits and the 1953 Seawall breach
that caused local flooding |
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The Stumble |
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Neolithic settlement, midden,
cooking pot, steam baths Neolithic plant material, 4000 -2300 BC |
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“The most comprehensive
group of Earlier Neolithic plant remains of any domestic site in England” |
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Early Bronz age settlement, post holes 2350 - 700 BC |
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Iron age settlement - hurdle bridge, fish traps,
stock enclosure, etc |
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Pottery vessel, Roman occupation, 43 - 409 AD |
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A discus like polished flint
knife found on the eroding shoreline in the area of the Stumble. Theses
knives are rare and appear to be a British develoment, associated with Beaker
pots and EBA burials. |
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Post-medieval wooden structures |
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Local |
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Hand millstone, 20 inch
diameter found at this location |
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Site of WW-II V2 rocket crash |
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A bronz spearhead in perfect
condition, found by a dingy sailor in the estuary near the Stumble. |
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The Creek |
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Lines of wooden posts, date unknown |
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Wooden structures on the
Goldhanger foreshore radiocarbon dated to 13th century |
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Wreck of Thames barge Snowdrop is still visible. |
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The barge Snowdrop had a long local
career. |
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Parts of a wreck were explored by Crawshay Frost
in the 1950s, which he thought was the keel
of a Roman galley. Parts are said to be given to Colchester Castle museum |
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Pieces of ornamental masonry from the old London
Bridge were used to build parts of the seawall. Some were not used and saved
by locals. |
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Remains of a Roman Pier” found in Goldhanger Creek in 1947 |
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“Prof. S.J.Rippon (1997: 130-3)
has suggested Goldhanger Creek as an AngloSaxon trading place on the Essex
coast”. |
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Collins Creek |
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Early
medieval fish traps or weirs, consisting of |
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Highams Farm |
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A medieval moat |
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near The Church |
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Cropmarks of linear
features |
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field next to The Church |
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Aerial
photos of clear cropmarks were said to be the former Goldhanger Hall. However an excavation in 2011
did not supported this. |
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Garden near the Church |
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A
Neolithic stone
implement found in a garden that was formerly a farmyard. It could be
either a axe head or a hand tool for skinning animals. |
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south of Gardners Farm |
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Redhills,
salterns and barrows investigated in the early 1900s |
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Near
the seawall: A first brass of Trajan and a first brass of Faustina Jnr were
among six coins found at Goldhanger and donated to Colchester Museum
(2909.14) by Mr F W Reader in 1914. Pastcape
monument no. 383370 |
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south of Gardners Farm |
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Decoy
Ponds “destroyed by modern reservoir” |
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Barrow Marshes |
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Sadly there are very few
signs of the many Ancient Tumuli at Barrow Marshes |
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Osea Island east end |
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Polished neolithic
implement |
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Site of WW-2 Spitfire crash
June 1942 |
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Osea Island |
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There are many metal and
concrete remnants of HMS Osea including the
remains for the CMB launch ramps. |
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Estuary, off Bounds |
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Neolithic worked flints
& pottery |
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Local |
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Site of two Fish Pits shown on 1820 Tithe map. Roman
coins found in the Estuary. Dagger
and spurs found in the Estuary. |
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Blocks
of stone that proliferate in the Estuary and Creek are said to have been
ballast in barges not needed for return journeys. |
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Estuary, Bounds hatch |
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Two
trackways or causeways from Bounds hatch heading towards Osea Island, clearly
visible at low tide. A track or causeway here may have been part of an ancient/Roman
north-south route from Colchester to Osea Island. See... Local highways and byways and section 6 - North
and south routes from The Square |
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south of Cobbs Farm |
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Site of Bentall’s 19th century iron foundry |
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field east of village |
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Copper ingot hoard found in the year
2000 |
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north of Charity Farm |
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Cropmarks of rectilinear
feature |
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north of Folly Faunts |
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Cropmark of rectilinear
features and pits |
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Estuary, off Lauriston |
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Redhills
& decoy ponds shown on 1947aerial
photo |
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Local |
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Site of WW-2 Douglas Boston
bomber crash, Nov 1942 |
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Local |
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field in village triangle |
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Stone-age
knife handle found, whereabouts unknown |
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Estuary, off |
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Neolithic and Bronze Age
site and a substantial red hill |
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See also the Maldon Archaeological and Historical
Group website and the Maldon area study report … Maeldune -
Introduction - Maldon both in External links |
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