Colchester Archaeological Trust

CAT Report 1081: summary

Archaeological evaluation at Redbank, Bury Water Lane, Newport, Essex, CB11 3TZ: March 2017
by Laura Pooley (with contributions from -)

Date report completed: March 2017
Location: Redbank, Bury Water Lane, Newport, Essex, CB11 3TZ
Map reference(s): TL 51862 34417 (c)
File size: 2,754 kb
Project type: Archaeological evaluation
Significance of the results: negative
Keywords: pond, field-boundary ditch

Summary. An archaeological evaluation (six trial-trenches) was carried out at Redbank, Bury Water Lane, Newport, Essex in advance of the construction of five new dwellings. Despite being located close to the medieval town, and the sites of a possible castle and leper hospital, the only archaeological remains were a field-boundary ditch and backfilled pond, both identified on the 1896 6-inch OS map and extant until at least the late 1940s.