Colchester Archaeological Trust

CAT Report 746: summary

Archaeological trial-trenching evaluation rear of The Stag Inn, Hatfield Heath, Essex - December 2013
by Ben Holloway and Howard Brooks (with contributions from Stephen Benfield)

Date report completed: January 2014
Location: land rear of the Stag Inn, Hatfield Heath, Essex
Map reference(s): TL 5243 1500
File size: 1,755 kb
Project type: Archaeological trial-trenching evaluation
Significance of the results: *
Keywords: late medieval, modern, pits, ditches

Summary. Located in the historic core of Hatfield Heath, this site was formerly the car park and beer garden of the Stag Inn. Three evaluation trenches 35m in length were positioned within the footprints of two proposed new buildings and their access road. There were five archaeological features: a late medieval pit, and modern ditches and pits. The modern features are probably associated with the modern housing development to the north of the site, and the late medieval pit provides only slight evidence for late medieval activity here. A modern gully may be a former plot boundary.