Point Clear, River Colne, Essex: Radiocarbon dating of waterlogged timbers
Author(s): Peter Marshall, Oliver Hutchinson, Danielle Newman, Gill Campbell, Sanne Palstra, Lukas Wacker
Four groups of worked wood exposed at –1.61mOD by aggressive tidal scour on the open foreshore at Point Clear on the River Colne, Essex were surveyed and sampled by CITiZAN and local volunteers. Radiocarbon dating and chronological modelling estimates that the three dated features groups (1–3) were constructed in the second half of the sixth century cal AD. The function of the structures is unclear, although possibly linked to the extensive fishing industry operational at the time in the Blackwater estuary.
- Report Number:
- 64/2024
- Series:
- Research Report
- Pages:
- 50
- Keywords:
- Radiocarbon Dating Wood Wood, Worked
