Colchester Archaeological Trust

CAT Report 444: summary

An archaeological evaluation on Southchurch Park for Anglian Water, November 2007
by E. Spurgeon

Date report completed: November 2007
Location: Southend, Essex
Map reference(s): TQ89338505 (centre)
File size: 192KB kb
Project type: Evaluation
Significance of the results: Negative
Keywords: flint

Summary. Two trenches were excavated and there were two linear features, one in each trench. F1 included a handful of modern glazed pottery and two worked flint scrapers; F2 contained no finds. The trenches were excavated down to the solid natural clay. No archaeological material or features were observed during the course of the evaluation. The thin layer of topsoil and small amount of subsoil overlying natural geological material may indicate that the area had been subjected to reduction or levelling in the relatively recent past.