Colchester Archaeological Trust

CAT Report 112: summary

Watching brief report: 4A East Hill, Colchester
by Crossan, C

Date report completed: 20/11/2000
Location: Colchester town centre, Essex
Map reference(s): TM00202523
File size: 703 kb
Project type: Watching brief
Significance of the results: Neg
Keywords: Human bone, post-medieval building, ceramic building materials, well

Summary. The property lies 30m beyond the site of Colchester's East Gate. No early ground features were revealed by works for two new houses. The site frontage had been subject to extensive post-medieval to modern ground disturbance. Unstratified human skull fragments were recovered from terracing at the rear and a structural record was made of a complex of freshly-exposed post-medieval brickwork at the side of 5 East Hill.