Digital Data from an Evaluation at Henderson Road, Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex, December 2022

This collection comprises images, a site plan, site records, and a project brief for an archaeological evaluation on land east of Henderson Road, Thorpe Le Soken, Essex carried out by Colchester Archaeological Trust in December 2022. The evaluation (12 trial-trenches) was carried in advance of the construction of a new residential development. The site lies adjacent to an area in which previous investigations revealed numerous medieval quarry pits containing artefacts dating from the 11th to the 14th century that indicated occupation in the vicinity during this period, as well as a series of post-medieval ditches and gullies thought to represent the remains of enclosures used for animal husbandry. A Roman ditch, a ditch possibly dating from the 11th to the early 13th century, and a pit, a treethrow and pit/treethrow dating to the post-medieval or modern periods were uncovered. Sixteen other features were also excavated, but a paucity of artefactual evidence meant they could not be dated.