List of archaeological sites in Thurrock explained

This list of archaeological sites includes finds and excavations that have taken place in the area now covered by the Thurrock unitary authority. The list is arranged by location and then chronologically by the date of the discovery or excavation. The archaeological finds and features cover all periods from the paleolithic to the 20th century. Most editions of Panorama (the Journal of the Thurrock Local History Society) contain further information about local archaeology. A brief review of archaeology in Thurrock by the Mucking weekenders is in an article by Margaret Jones in Panorama 24.[1] There is a fuller account of archaeology in Thurrock between 1954 and 2002 (including reminiscences of the Mucking excavation) in Thurrock Gold published by the Thurrock Local History Society.

Recent editions of Essex Archaeology and History contain short reports of archaeological activity in Essex (including Thurrock) during the previous year. These reports include trial excavations and surveys that revealed no significant features or finds and which are not included in this list.

This list does not include most individual finds housed in the Thurrock Museum. A list of palaeolithic and neolithic finds was published in Panorama - Journal of the Thurrock Local History Society, 3, 1958. Many Romano-British and Saxon finds in the museum are listed in The Archaeology of Thurrock: Romano-British and Saxon by Randal Bingley (supplement to Panorama - the Journal of the Thurrock Local History Society, 1973).

Sites of archaeological finds or excavations

Aveley

Chadwell St Mary

(See also Tilbury Docks and Tilbury Fort. For Chadwell St Mary Ringworks, see West Tilbury.)

Corringham

East Tilbury

post medieval military features (two excavations and fieldwork, 1984–2000)[17]

Fobbing

Grays

Horndon-on-the-Hill

Langdon Hills

Little Thurrock

(see also Tilbury Docks)

Mucking

continuous excavation under Margaret Jones with multi-period finds and features (Neolithic to Medieval) (1965–1978)[31] [32] [33]

Orsett

Bronze Age and Iron Age sherds (1980)[30]

Purfleet

Sites listed under West Thurrock

South Ockendon

Stanford-le-Hope

Stifford

Tilbury Docks

Tilbury Fort

West Thurrock

West Tilbury

(see also Tilbury Fort)

Notes

  1. Margaret. Jones. The Mucking Weekenders. Panorama. 24.
  2. Stuart Foreman and David Maynard, A late Iron Age and Romano-British farmstead at Ship Lane, Aveley; excavations on the line of the A13 Wennington to Mar Dyke road improvement, 1994-5 (Essex Archaeology & History, 33 (2002), pp123-56)
  3. https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/in-your-area/east-of-england/evidence-of-historic-garden-remains-in-thurrock/ Historic England report
  4. M Christy and FW Reader The Opening of a Mound at Chadwell St Mary (Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society, Volume XIII, 1915)
  5. http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/search/fr.cfm?rcn=EHNMR-638097 Excavation report
  6. https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MEX6084&resourceID=1001 Essex Sites and Monuments Record - record number 1685
  7. https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MEX5927&resourceID=1001 Essex Sites and Monuments Record 1646
  8. The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society, 1958
  9. Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society, p 384
  10. http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/search/fr.cfm?rcn=EHNMR-638088 Excavation report
  11. http://www.thurrock.gov.uk/heritage/content.php?page=factfiles_details&id=11 Thurrock Museum Heritage fact files
  12. http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/search/fr.cfm?rcn=EHNMR-1232799 Excavation report
  13. Archaeology in Essex, 2008. A. Bennett. 196. 2010. Essex Archaeology and History.
  14. Jonathan Catton, Archeological Notes on the Parish of East Tilbury (in Panorama 26, Thurrock Local History Society, 1984)
  15. http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/cbaresrep/pdf/019/01904001.pdf Historic Churches, a Wasting Asset - Council for British Archaeology Research Report 19
  16. http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/search/fr.cfm?rcn=EHNMR-638096 excavation report
  17. https://archive.today/20120716031158/http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/events.aspx?a=0&hob_id=413479 COALHOUSE FORT, Investigation History
  18. http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue25/2/4.4.59.html Tilbury, Essex
  19. http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/search/fr.cfm?rcn=EHNMR-1316284&CFID=319623&CFTOKEN=27805342 Excavation report
  20. https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MEX1040100&resourceID=1001 Essex HER 45941
  21. Randal Bingley, Archaeological Evaluation: Fobbing (in Panorama 45, Thurrock Local History Society, 2007)
  22. http://cat.essex.ac.uk/reports/CAT-report-0375.pdf Archaeological evaluation at Dry Street, Basildon
  23. Museum Newsletter. Panorama. 11. Doyle. 15.
  24. Book: Tinworth, Winifred M. Horndon on the Hill, Ancient and Modern. 29. 2005.
  25. http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/essex_eus_2006/ahds/dissemination/pdf/Horndon_on_the_Hill/splittext/Horndon_on_the_Hill_1999_Historic_Towns_Assessment_Report.pdf Historic Town Assessment Report
  26. many recent editions of Panorama (the Journal of the Thurrock Local History Society) e.g. number 43
  27. Terry Carney, Fifty Years of Thurrock Archaeology (in Thurrock Gold, Thurrock Local History Society, 2002)
  28. PJ Drury Observation of Roadworks in Thurrock (in Essex Archaeology and History, 5, 1973)
  29. K. Rodwell, The excavation of a Romano-British pottery kiln at Palmer's School, Grays, Essex, Essex Archaeology and History, 15 (1983)
  30. T.J. Wilkinson, Archaeology and Environment in South Essex (East Anglian Archeology, Report No.42, 1980)
  31. Clark, A. 1993. Excavations at Mucking, Volume 1: The Site Atlas. English Heritage Archaeological Report 20.
  32. [Helena Hamerow|H Hamerow]
  33. Sue Hirst and Dido Clark, Excavations at Mucking: Volume 3, The Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries (Museum of London Archaeology 2009)
  34. Web site: Thurrock Gazette.
  35. Historic finds at port dig (Thurrock Yellow Advertiser, 17 September 2009)
  36. http://www.yourthurrock.com/2009/09/page/7 Interview with site supervisor
  37. Book: London Gateway:Iron Age and Roman Salt Making in the Thames Estuary. Oxford Archaeology. 2012. Edward. Bidulph. Stuart. Foreman. Elizabeth. Stafford. Dan. Stansbie. Rebecca. Nicholson.
  38. The Causewayed Enclosure, Orsett, Essex, Proc Prehis Soc, vol 44
  39. H Toller, An interim report on the Orset Cock enclosure (Brittania, 11, 1980)
  40. GA Carter, Excavations at the Orsett "Cock" enclosure, Essex (East Anglian archaeology report, 86, Chelmsford: Essex County Council, 1998. viii, p 184), but see A blog by Geoff Carter for a re-interpretation.
  41. B Milton, Excavations at Barrington's Farm (Essex Archaeology & History, 18, 1987)
  42. Orsett Cropmarks Community Fieldwalking, MOLA, 2019
  43. Trans. Essex Archaeological Society, 1966, Vol 2, Part 1
  44. Romano-British Cremation Vessels from South Ockendon. Panorama. 11. Doyle.
  45. Recent Archaeological Work in Thurrock. Panorama. 45.
  46. KA & WJ Rodwell, Prehistoric, Roman and Saxon Finds from Stanford le Hope (Essex Archaeology and History, 1973, p123)
  47. JNL Myres, A corpus of Anglo-Saxon pottery (Cambridge University Press, 1977)
  48. Mark Peachey and Ruarigh Dale, A late Medieval Site at Great Garlands Farm (Essex Archaeology and History, volume 36)
  49. Essex Archaeology & History, 3rd series, 31 (2000) pp 285-93
  50. The excavation report has not yet been published, but the results are briefly mentioned in an undated pamphlet history of the church.
  51. http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MEX1010658&resourceID=1001 Essex HER
  52. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 79, 2013, pp. 19–37
  53. [Flaxman Charles John Spurrell|FCJ Spurrell]
  54. https://archive.today/20120713124019/http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/events.aspx?a=0&hob_id=413465 TILBURY FORT, Investigation History
  55. Christopher Harold The Story of St Clements (Procter & Gamble, 4th edition, 2009) quoting newspaper reports
  56. Four Church Excavations in Essex (Essex County Council Archaeological Section, Occasional Paper 4)
  57. http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/search/fr.cfm?rcn=CTRL03-67&CFID=573996&CFTOKEN=39545028 evaluation at High House, Purfleet by Wessex Archaeology
  58. Phil. Andrews. Essex Archaeology and History. 2010. Archaeology 2008.
  59. William Palin, Stifford and Its Neighbourhood, Past and Present. Printed for Private Circulation
  60. R Bingley, A Saxon Grubenhaus at West Tilbury (Panorama, Thurrock Local History Society, 1972/3)
  61. PJ Drury and WJ Rodwell, Excavations at Gun Hill, West Tilbury (in Essex Archaeology and History, 5, 1973)
  62. TW Potter, An Iron Age Site at Rainbow Wood (Essex Archaeology and History, vol 6)
  63. Book: Newton, Andrew. The Chadwell St Mary Ringwork: A late Bronze Age and Anglo-Saxon settlement in southern Essex. 2020. 9781407356747.
  64. http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-481-1/dissemination/pdf/archaeol7-102992_1.pdf MILL HOUSE FARM, CHADWELL ST MARY, ESSEX: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVALUATION ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS LTD
  65. http://www.thurrockgazette.co.uk/news/11226783.Chadwell_goes_back_to_the_Bronze_Age/ Thurrock Gazette