The Chadwell St Mary Ringwork: a late Bronze Age and Anglo-Saxon settlement in southern Essex

This volume in the British Archaeological Reports series presents the results of excavations by Archaeological Solutions Ltd in advance of gravel-quarrying on a hilltop next to the Thames Estuary in Essex, just to the south-west of the Mucking ridge, where comparative Bronze Age and Anglo-Saxon occupation is well documented. The open-area excavations at Chadwell St Mary in 2012-2014 recovered evidence for a later Bronze Age ringwork (to add to the known examples nearby at Mucking and at Mucking North, plus those further afield, with good topographical representations in the discussion chapter), as well as an extensive series of pits and post-holes representing contemporary (settlement?) a