Archaeological Excavations at Barking Abbey. Public Open Day. Saturday 16 June. 11am-3pm

Transactions. Fourth Series Vol. 7 (2016)

Members of ESAH will have received the new edition of Transactions, published May 2018.  It will be on sale soon through our Online Bookshop price £15.00 to a UK address including postage and packing.

Essex Society for Archaeology and History

Transactions. Fourth Series. Volume 7 (2016)

(307 pages)

Contents:

A Prehistoric and Roman Landscape on the Tendring Plateau. Investigation at Hill Farm, Tendring:   Ellen Heppell … 1

Later Prehistoric Remains and Late Iron Age to Early Roman Enclosures at Roxwell Quarry:  Mark Germany … 45

Further Investigation of the Iron Age and Roman Settlement at Heybridge: Excavations at 39-45 Crescent Road, 2002:  Mark Atkinson … 70

A Roman agricultural landscape in South-East Essex: Excavations at Brays Lane, Rochford:  Robin Wroe-Brown … 112

A Romano-British Ladder system at Asheldham Quarry, Essex:  Antony R. R. Mustchin et al … 129

The Romano-British small town and temple complex at Harlow, Essex: a liminal community on the Catuvellaunian-Trinovantian border:  Stephen Rippon … 142

Middle Saxon and Later Occupation at the former Croxley Works, Church Street, Maldon:  Trevor Ennis … 163

Medieval Riverside development in Chelmsford: Meadows Car Park, 1991:  Patrick Allen … 179

Waltham Abbey’s Panelled Room:  Christina Faraday … 211

Nathaniel Salmon (1675-1742), historian of Hertfordshire, Surrey and Essex:  Michael Leach … 224

Fieldwork Summaries:  Paul Gilman (ed.) … 230

Historic Buildings in Essex Reports from EHBG:  David Andrews (ed.)  …  249

Braintree Local Heritage List – a community groups and local authority partnership:  Adrian Corder-Birch & Tony Crosby … 275

Shorter Notes

Investigations at New Street, Maldon: Early Iron Age occupation and remains associated with the Carmelite Friary:  Lawrence Morgan-Shelbourne … 285

A Boundary Ditch at Land South of Springfields: consideration of the extent of the Roman town at Great Dunmow in light of this and other recent archaeological investigations:  Phillippa Adams & Mark Atkinson … 291

Trouble at Mill: A Study of a 17^th Century Legal Dispute Concerning the Freshwater Family and Heybridge Mills:  Kevin Bruce … 295

Book Reviews

England’s Coastal Heritage: A Review of Progress since 1997, by Peter Murphy:  Nigel Brown … 301

The Secrets of the Mound: Mersea Barrow 1912-2012, by Sue Howlett:  Paul Sealey … 301

Chepyng Walden: a Late Medieval Small Town – Saffron Walden 1438-1490, by Elizabeth Allen:  David Andrews … 302

Essex Bibliography:  Andrew Phillips & Paul Sealey … 304

Revised Notes for Contributors … 305

Essex Journal (Spring 2018)

Subscribers to the Essex Journal, sponsored by the Essex Society for Archaeology and History, will have received the Spring 2018 edition recently (Vol 53. No. 1). In this edition, dedicated to Andrew Phillips historian of Colchester, are the following articles:

- Editorial

- News from the Essex Journal

- GeoPatterns Essex Walls Close Up

- Boxted Airfield 75th Anniversary

- What a Coincidence: Col. Seymour's Marauder

- Andrew Phillips: An Appreciation

- Cauldrons and witches on Head Street, Colchester?

- The Elegant Society of Georgian Colchester as depicted by James Dunthorne, junior (c.1758-1794)

- J.M. Churchill, MRCS, LSA: Colchester's Medical Coroner

- Thomas Moy: Colchester's 'King Coal'

- On the Brink: Colchester and the Czech Crisis of 1938

- Colchester Recalled: a unique archive

- Book Reviews

- EJ 20 Questions? Chris Thornton

Newsletter (Summer 2018)

The Society's Summer 2018 Newsletter (NL186) has been issued for a few weeks now so that plenty of notice is given to members of the forthcoming Annual General Meeting, to be held at Hill Farm, Gestingthorpe on Saturday 9 June 2018.  Gestingthorpe has its association with the Oates family, and Captain Oates on Scott's ill-fated polar expedition of 1912. On The Antique Roadshow last evening (BBC 1 3.6.18) someone brought along buttons, an ice-pick and compass purported to have been owned by Oates.  A digression.

In this edition is focus on the movement of the brass to Thomas Satpel, a London B style brass, from the redundant church at Sutton to Rochford. A celebration will be held at St Andrew's Church, Rochford, on Saturday 14 July 2.00-4.00pm to which all are invited.

Items this time include:

- From the President, being the final contribution from Adrian Corder-Birch before he steps down from office after the three-year term

- Monumental Brass Society saves Thomas Stapel

- Report on Roman Cremation Vessel Funded

- ESAH, Froste and Mosaic all at Roman Circus House, Colchester

- EAH Transactions Seeks to Publish More History

- William Burges' Work at Waltham Abbey

- A Whale at Wivenhoe

- Wivenhoe High Street 100 Years Ago

- The Diary of an Ejected Minister: Revd. Frances Chandler of Theydon Garnon

- The Courage of an Essex Tailor: William Chieveling 

- Life off Earth and the Rector of Orsett 1638

- The Peasants' Revolt

- Potins

- Apples and Orchards in Essex

- Award for Essex Journal

- Accuracy of OS Surveyors' Map

- European Route of Industrial Heritage (ERIH)

- Events in Essex

- Obituary: Jean Hewitt 1924-2018

- Gifts to Essex Record Office

- Book Reviews: The Parish Atlas of England - An Atlas of English Parish Boundaries 

Willingale Ring Saved and now On Display

Blackmore Area Local History: Willingale Ring Saved and now On Display: Good news.  Epping Forest District Museum was able to secure the funding to buy the Willingale Ring.  It has just gone on display at Waltham Abbey.

ESAH AGM Saturday 9 June 2018

Members will have received paperwork for the AGM in the latest Newsletter - details of of the Newsletter to be posted shortly.   There will be a book sale at the event.  'Full of Profitable Thinges', new £2 each, plus very last chance for surplus books.