What question did this study set out to answer?

To assess archaeological findings from the Bulls Lodge Quarry excavation and update project plans accordingly.

May 3, 2026Open Access

Bulls Lodge Quarry, Boreham, Essex: Archaeological Excavation 2015. Post-excavation Assessment and Updated Project Design

Key Points

To assess archaeological findings from the Bulls Lodge Quarry excavation and update project plans accordingly.
Conducted a SMS investigation over 4.88ha of the quarry site in 2015
Recorded features including Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age pits and post-medieval ditches
Compared findings to previous excavations in 2012 and 2014
Identified small quantity of Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age pits and undated pits likely from the same period
Found evidence of ditches tied to post-medieval land enclosure systems
Noted a possible late prehistoric waterhole or well-type feature

Abstract

A 4.88ha area of the quarry site was subject to a SMS investigation in 2015. This strip area was located north of areas previously investigated in 2012 and 2014 that contained prehistoric pit scatters and ditches and ponds that related to the post-medieval agricultural landscape. A small quantity of pits of Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age date were recorded, together with a larger quantity of undated pits which are very likely to also be of a similar period. These are part of the wider scatter of prehistoric pits, particularly recorded elsewhere on the west side of the quarry. An undated waterhole or well-type feature may also have been of late prehistoric date. Ditches define boundaries of parts of the post-medieval land enclosure system. Most of these appear on late 19th and early 20th century OS mapping and define rectilinear fields that existed until the construction of the WW2 airfield.

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