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Evaluation (desktop and trenching) of 1.5 ha proposed development site located Med ditch.

Redeposited Rom sherd found during excavation.

Redeposited Mesolithic arrowhead (microlith?) found during excavation.

Monitoring of footing trenches identified a single undated pit.

Pottery and tile scatter from Watching Brief.

Pottery and worked flint scatter from Watching Brief.

Sparse residual struck flint and post-medieval and modern features, mostly field boundary ditches and a small number of pits.

Single trench evaluation of proposed building site found unstratified scatter of LMed pottery.

Evidence of Roman rural settlement including structures, ditched plot boundaries, enclosures pits and 'dark earth'/palaeochannel at Land off St Michael's Way.

Evaluation and palaeolenvironmental survey revealed that the site had been water meadow until the construction of the Gipping Navigation channel in the late 18th century when the site became a centre for mercantile activity.