Mucking - Prehistoric and Roman

Intensively excavated between 1965 and 1978, the Mucking, Essex campaigns led to open-area excavations across 18ha, and the site was renowned in its time as the largest excavation to date in Europe. What it revealed was a dense, multi-period landscape palimpsest ranging from Neolithic to Medieval times, but primarily involving later Bronze and Iron Age, Roman and Saxon settlement; in total, more than 44,000 features were excavated. Notable among these were over a thousand burials (including four Romano-British and two Anglo-Saxon cemeteries), the LBA South Rings enclosure, 110 roundhouses, a similar number of four- and six-post structures, and a Romano-British settlement with over twenty pottery kilns and associated structures and enclosure systems.