The Old Vicarage, Church Street, Great Dunmow, Essex: An Archaeological Evaluation

The evaluation consisted of the excavation of 1no. 12m trial trench at 1.6m wide and a test pit, positioned within the footprints of the proposed swimming pool and pool house respectively. Beneath the garden topsoil, the edge of a large 19th-century pit was revealed in Trench 1, which contained sherds of late 18th and 19th-century pottery and fragments of brick and tile of a similar date. Part of a small post-medieval pit was revealed in the adjacent test pit, the fill of which yielded seven sherds of pottery dating to c. AD 1200-1250, a piece of daub, a fragment of late medieval/early post-medieval glazed tile and other fragments of later post-medieval peg tile. No other archaeological features were encountered by the investigation.