High House, Purfleet, ARC HHP 97

Wessex Archaeology was commissioned by Union Railways Limited to carry out an archaeological evaluation on a site at Purfleet, Essex (centred on URL grid point 36750 58125; NGR grid point TQ 56750 78125), known as High House. The potential for archaeological remains within the site had been identified by an earlier Environmental Statement (URL 1994) which included fieldwalking (URL 1995) and geophysical prospection (URL 1996). This potential was defined as the possibility of discovering subsoil features and deposits of archaeological interest which may be associated with, or in close proximity to, surface artefact concentrations recorded during fieldwalking or anomalies recorded during geophysical survey, and also the possibility of finding a continuation of the possible late prehistoric enclosure noted in the evaluation of the adjacent Palaeolithic site.