Colchester Archaeological Trust

CAT Report 1485: summary

Archaeological strip, map and record excavation on land at Warren Lane, Stanway, Colchester, Essex, CO3 0NW: August 2019-June 2020
by Dr Elliott Hicks & Laura Pooley (with contributions from Lisa Gray)

Date report completed: September 2020
Location: Warren Lane, Stanway, Colchester, Essex, CO3 0NW
Map reference(s): TL 9470 2221 (centre)
File size: 7103 kb
Project type: Excavation
Significance of the results:
Keywords: Warren Lane Stanway Colchester

Summary. An archaeological strip, map and record excavation was carried out on land at Warren Lane, Stanway, Colchester, Essex during groundworks for a new agricultural building and protective structures for growing soft fruit. The site lies in an area of nationallysignificant prehistoric and Roman remains, on the edge of the Late Iron Age oppidum of Camulodunum, and to the west of the Late Iron Age and Roman site at Gosbecks and the Stanway élite burial site. The groundworks revealed an undatable pit, but has also allowed the alignment of one of the cropmark features to be read justed from that proposed during the evaluation, and for another feature to be reclassified as a probable elongated pit.