Colchester Archaeological Trust

CAT Report 1216: summary

Archaeological evaluation at Wildwood, 26 Bush End Road, Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, CM22 6NN: January 2018
by Laura Pooley and Dr Elliott Hicks (with contributions from Stephen Benfield)

Date report completed: February 2018
Location: Wildwood, 26 Bush End Road, Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, CM22 6NN
Map reference(s): TL 55008 19885 (c)
File size: 1,738 kb
Project type: Archaeological evaluation
Significance of the results: *
Keywords: 18th-early 19th century, brick floor

Summary. An archaeological evaluation (consisting of one trial-trench) was carried out in the garden of Wildwood, 26 Bush End Road, Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex in advance of the construction of a replacement dwelling. An 18th- to early 19th-century brick floor was revealed, with a Victorian halfpenny showing that it had been covered in linoleum after 1900. The first edition OS map of 1874-5 shows a rectangular building in this location which is still present on OS maps in the 1940s.