Colchester Archaeological Trust

CAT Report 1187: summary

Archaeological monitoring and recording at Crumps Farm, Stortford Road, Little Canfield, Essex, CM6 1DN: October 2017
by Dr Elliott Hicks (with contributions from -)

Date report completed: November 2017
Location: Crumps Farm, Stortford Road, Little Canfield, Essex, CM6 1DN
Map reference(s): TL 58492 21004 (c)
File size: 1,997 kb
Project type: Archaeological monitoring and recording
Significance of the results: negative
Keywords: medieval to post-medieval/modern, ditch

Summary. Archaeological monitoring and recording were carried out at Crumps Farm, Stortford Road, Little Canfield, Essex in advance of groundworks for the on-going formation of a major waste-management facility. The groundworks consisted of topsoil-stripping in advance of the construction of an eastern screening landform and a new bund. The development site lies near to the sites of a number of excavations around Little Canfield which have produced evidence of occupation and activity from the Palaeolithic to the post-medieval periods, and within a complex of cropmarks of medieval or post-medieval date. A single ditch of medieval to post-medieval/modern date was observed during this project.