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#ThrowbackThursday ‘Skyline 120’ Great Notley
This #ThrowbackThursday we will look at our excavation at the ‘Skyline 120’ business park at Great Notley, near Braintree in Essex!
Back in 2006, we soil-stripped and excavated an area of 0.68ha at the site, as it is located close to a series of known cropmarks that formed field boundaries and possible ditched trackways
A Late Iron Age farmstead was identified, which was thought to have been enlarged by the addition of an outer ditch in the later 1st or early 2nd century AD. It seems that the farmstead was in use into the 2nd century AD, when its east side was cut by a ditch on a different alignment. After this, the land was probably given over to agricultural or pastoral farming
The presence of loomweights, briquetage and structural clay on the site suggest a domestic settlement based on an agricultural economy. However, it seems that heavy plough damage is responsible for the lack of any identifiable structures apart from a few pits and post-holes
For more information, check out CAT Report 367 on our reports website at: cat.essex.ac.uk
