Digital Data from an Excavation at Brierley Paddocks, West Mersea, Colchester 2020

This collection comprises a digital archive of photographs, GIS, project databases, reports and site records from a small (0.1ha) area excavation at Brierly Paddocks, West Mersea, Essex. The excavation was undertaken by Oxford Archaeology East in December 2020.
The excavations uncovered an unurned cremation burial, a single pit and a series of ditches forming part of a wider field system. The only dateable finds recovered were small quantities of Middle/Late Bronze Age pottery. Whilst the cremation burial and pit seem very likely to be of Bronze Age date, the ditches followed the same alignment as nearby historic field boundaries recorded on first edition Ordnance Survey mapping, and it is uncertain whether they represent part of a prehistoric field systems or relate to much later, post-medieval/early modern land use.