List of archaeological sites in Thurrock

Sites of archaeological finds or excavations

Aveley

• multi-period finds and features
• The Ice House, Belhus; post-medieval
• Ship Lane; Iron Age and Romano-British

  Chadwell St Mary

• Medieval mound
• A Roman oven containing three complete pots, fragments of others and a small clay lamp found south of the road between Chadwell and West Tilbury
• Saxon pot sherd
• Iron Age and Roman settlement; Roman coins now in Thurrock museum
• Chadwell St Mary Primary School; Roman coin, pot sherds and tile as well as Saxon finds and features
• early neolithic pit, east of Sabina Road

  Corringham

• Geomagntetic survey and evaluation trenches found Bronze Age pottery, field boundaries and evidence of ridge and furrow at Southend Road

  East Tilbury

• Roman tesserae discovered during gravel digging
• unpublished excavation of St Katherine's church revealing earlier tower and south aisle
• foreshore; Romano-British huts
• Bronze Age ring ditch
• Coalhouse Fort; post medieval military features
• Large numbers of Saxon coins found by metal detectorists at a "productive site"
• Bronze Age cremation burials

  Fobbing

• Evidence of occupation during the Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Roman as well as farming in the early Anglo-Saxon discovered by an appraisal prior to development at Dry Street.

  Grays

• The Bull Inn; medieval domestic items

  Horndon-on-the-Hill

• Woolmarket; medieval pottery and other medieval items
• Corner of Mill Lane and High Road; medieval pottery
• Corner of Mill Lane and High Street; 13th or 14th century gravelled market surface

  Langdon Hills

• The Park; Iron Age pottery
• mesolithic flint tools and pot boilers at a number of sites

  Little Thurrock

• Globe Pit, - discovery of clactonian flint tools
• Rookery Hill; Neolithic flints and medieval pottery sherds
• Palmer's Girls School; Romano-British kiln
• Rectory Road; Bronze Age and Iron Age settlement

  Mucking

• Linford; precursor to the Mucking excavation which revealed multi-period finds and features
• The Mucking Excavation; continuous excavation under Margaret Jones with multi-period finds and features
• Mucking Flats; timber structure identified within Mucking Creek
• Mucking Flats; Iron Age and Roman salt making; roundhouse and boathouse

  Orsett

• Cherry Orchard Farm, - Romano-British finds
• Neolithic causewayed enclosure, previously noticed on aerial photographs and Saxon inhumations
• Orsett Cock; Iron Age, Romano-British and Saxon finds and features
• Baker Street; Bronze Age and Iron Age sherds
• Barrington's Farm; Early Saxon

  Purfleet

South Ockendon

• South Ockendon Hall; investigation of apparently Romano-British mounds
• Romano-British pottery
• Hill Farm; Romano-British cremation
• Belhus Park; Iron Age and Roman features, Medieval settlements
• South Ockendon Hospital; investigation prior to redevelopment suggested Bronze Age settlement, 1995

  Stanford-le-Hope

• Prehistoric, Roman and Saxon finds in gravel pit
• Stanford le Hope bypass; numerous small finds, Paleolithic to Medieval
• Saxon jar
• Great Garlands Farm; late medieval

  Stifford

• investigation of deneholes
• Primrose Island; Romano-British finds
• Ardale School; Neolithic, Iron Age, Roman, Early Saxon and medieval
• Neolithic to medieval including an early Saxon building
• Primrose Island; Iron Age, Roman and Early Saxon
• Stifford Primary School; Medieval oven and Roman and Medieval field boundaries
• remnants of a Saxon building discovered during building work on the church tower

  Tilbury Docks

• Mesolithic skeleton found during the construction of the docks
• observation of Roman material from a possible town during the construction of the docks

  Tilbury Fort

• post medieval military features

  West Thurrock

• building work at St Clements revealed a circular wall
• excavation of St Clement's revealed earlier buildings
• earlier church with circular nave on the site of St Clement's
• Armour Road; investigation prior to development found worked flints and fossils
• High House, Purfleet; evaluation identified features from neolithic to post medieval
• excavation at High House, Purfleet revealed various features from late prehistoric to early Roman
• excavation at Stone House revealed 13th or 14th century stone building

  West Tilbury

• Discovery of Roman coin and urn while digging a ditch
• Gun Hill; Paleolithic and neolithic flint tools, Bronze Age features, Romano-British finds and early Saxon grubenhaus
• Rainbow Wood ; Iron Age
• Mill House Farm; Bronze and Iron Age pottery and Saxon settlement evidence such as ring ditches, enclosure ditches, gullies, pits and postholes