Colchester Archaeological Trust

CAT Report 24: summary

Archaeological evaluation: land adjoining Birch Grove Golf Club, Layer Road, Colchester, Essex -
by Crossan, C

Date report completed: October 1998
Location: Colchester, Essex
Map reference(s): TL 9781 2145
File size: 10,658 kb
Project type: Evaluation
Significance of the results: neg
Keywords: earthworks, ring-ditch, cropmarks

Summary. An evaluation carried out in advance of a proposed golf course extension revealed a straight ditch-like feature of indeterminate but possibly early date (Trench 2, F1). The feature lies in the western corner of a large field from which nearby cropmark evidence of linear features and ring ditches has previously been recovered. Two earth mounds of unknown but possibly modern origin were noted and plotted in an adjacent wood.