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Bronze Age – Springfield Lyons Causewayed Enclosure
Join Stephen and Yhana as they visit and treasure hunt a Bronze Age Site. A few interesting finds as they field walk around the enclosure and discover a few prehistoric artefacts. Springfield Lyons Causewayed Enclosure is an interesting site just above the Chelmer Valley in Chelmsford, Essex – It originally overlooked the River below with views of an ancient Neolithic Cursus 690 meters long and further in the distance another enclosure situated in Great Baddow – All three of these sites are closely aligned on a Northern route. These prehistoric areas of Chelmsford includes Barrows and Henges now lost. Excavations were carried out at Springfield Lyons between 1979 – 1991 – Which established the circular earthworks to be of late Bronze Age, although finds were found that pre-dated this. So the area was certainly occupied in the Neolithic. This particular site also yields a Saxon cemetery. The causewayed enclosure at Springfield Lyons is an important site and now lends its name to other circular enclosures which closely resemble the one excavated in Chelmsford. Some of most interesting finds found during excavation was a large quantity of clay moulds for casting swords, Neolithic pits, containing Mildenhall Ware, Grooved Ware and Beaker pottery and flint work. These Lithic artefacts were found in practically every context excavated- In total more then 21,000 were discovered most of which were recorded. Scrapers were the most numerous of all the flint tools and ranged in classification based on the location and angle of retouch – some are blank to / unmodified flakes, but served their purpose as a scraping tool. Of all the arrowheads that were found, they included leaf-shaped, barbed and tanged and transverse types. – Laurel leaves were also found, these are larger and thicker then arrowheads and may have been used for spear points In context – other flint tools found included Knives, Fabricators, Piercers, Denticulates and Microliths. The actual typological range of artefacts suggests that the site extends from the Mesolithic through to the late Bronze Age. So this area of Chelmsford truly is an incredible site.
- Published: 23 April 2021
- Location: Essex, England
- Duration: 17:14
- Photography – Stephen Robert Kuta / Yhana Kuta
- Written by – Stephen Robert Kuta
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Join Stephen and Yhana as they visit and treasure hunt a Bronze Age Site. A few interesting finds as they field walk around the enclosure and discover a few prehistoric artefacts. Springfield Lyons Causewayed Enclosure is an interesting site just above the Chelmer Valley in Chelmsford, Essex – It originally overlooked the River below with views of an ancient Neolithic Cursus 690 meters long and further in the distance another enclosure situated in Great Baddow – All three of these sites are closely aligned on a Northern route. These prehistoric areas of Chelmsford includes Barrows and Henges now lost. Excavations were carried out at Springfield Lyons between 1979 – 1991 – Which established the circular earthworks to be of late Bronze Age, although finds were found that pre-dated this. So the area was certainly occupied in the Neolithic. This particular site also yields a Saxon cemetery. The causewayed enclosure at Springfield Lyons is an important site and now lends its name to other circular enclosures which closely resemble the one excavated in Chelmsford. Some of most interesting finds found during excavation was a large quantity of clay moulds for casting swords, Neolithic pits, containing Mildenhall Ware, Grooved Ware and Beaker pottery and flint work. These Lithic artefacts were found in practically every context excavated- In total more then 21,000 were discovered most of which were recorded. Scrapers were the most numerous of all the flint tools and ranged in classification based on the location and angle of retouch – some are blank to / unmodified flakes, but served their purpose as a scraping tool. Of all the arrowheads that were found, they included leaf-shaped, barbed and tanged and transverse types. – Laurel leaves were also found, these are larger and thicker then arrowheads and may have been used for spear points In context – other flint tools found included Knives, Fabricators, Piercers, Denticulates and Microliths. The actual typological range of artefacts suggests that the site extends from the Mesolithic through to the late Bronze Age. So this area of Chelmsford truly is an incredible site.
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