Colchester Archaeological Trust

CAT Report 1454: summary

Archaeological strip, map, record and monitoring at the church of St John the Baptist, Hall Road, Mount Bures, Essex, CO8 5AS: January-February 2019
by Dr Elliott Hicks with Laura Pooley (with contributions from Dr Matthew Loughton, Julie Curl, Chris Lister, Ben Holloway, Emma Holloway)

Date report completed: November 2019
Location: Church of St John the Baptist, Hall Road, Mount Bures, Essex, CO8 5AS
Map reference(s): TL 9045 3247 (centre)
File size: kb
Project type: Strip, map and record and monitoring
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Summary. An archaeological strip, map and record project incorporating monitoring was carried out at the church of St John the Baptist, Hall Road, Mount Bures, Essex, during the groundworks for a single-storey extension on the northern side of the church and new service connections. Fifteen inhumation burials were exposed by the groundworks and a quantity of disarticulated human bone was found across the site. The earliest burial dated from the mid 12th to the late 13th century, and the latest were two burial vaults dating from the 18th to the early 19th century.