Transactions Fourth Series Volume 5

Contents

• An Early Bronze Age Beaker domestic site: Excavations at 105-109 New Road, Rainham, London Borough of Havering: R Bull … 1
• A Prehistoric landscape at Langford Hall, near Heybridge: Excavations 1995-96: M Roy & E M Heppell … 19
• Excavations at Earls Hall Farm, St Osyth: Nuala C Woodley … 37
• Continuity and change in the mid Chelmer Valley – archaeological excavations at Old Hall and Generals Farm, Boreham, 2007: M Germany … 45
• A Late Iron Age red hill and saltern at Bradwell on Sea: T Ennis … 103
• Late Iron Age, Roman and medieval occupation at Letch’s Yard, 109
• High Street, Braintree: T Ennis … 103
• The gardens at Moulsham Hall: Excavations at Princes Road, Chelmsford, 1996-97: E M Heppell … 118
• The stationary steam engine in Essex before 1840: A Phillips … 133
• Historic Buildings in Essex (Essex Historic Buildings Group): Essex Tree-Ring Dates; Aveley St Michael; Sheering Church Nave Roof; Baythorne Hall, Birdbrook. A Raised Aisle Hall Manor House built in 1341; The Stockwell Restaurant, the former Stockwell Arms Public House, Colchester; Bullocks Cross, Coggeshall; Parsonage Farm, School Lane, Broomfield, Chelmsford; The Listed Barns at Coleman’s Farm, Theydon Mount: David Andrews … 142
• Heybridge Hall and the Freshwater family: K Bruce … 182
• Ancient and modern, developing landscape of South Essex: A review of four recent monographs: 
  (i) Landscape and Prehistory of the East London Wetlands: investigation along the A13 DBFO road scheme, Tower Hamlets, Newham and Barking & Dagenham, 2000-2003 by Elizabeth Stafford with Damian Goodburn and Martin Bates, 2012; (ii)By River, Fields and Factories: The Making of the Lower Lea Valley: archaeological and cultural heritage investigations on the site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games by Andrew B Powell, 2012; 
  (iii) London Gateway, Iron Age and Roman Salt Making in the Thames Estuary: Excavation at Stanford Wharf Nature Reserve, Essex by Edward Biddulph, Stuart Foreman, Elizabeth Stafford, Dan Shanbie & Rebecca Nicholson, 2012; 
  (iv) Thames Holocene: A geoarchaeological approach to the investigation of the river floodplain for High Speed 1, 1994-2003 by Martin Bates and Elizabeth Stafford, 2013: Nigel Brown … 190
  

  Shorter Notes

• A possible Roman tile kiln at Prentice Place, Carters Mead, Harlow: S Mounce & P Bradley … 200
• The misplaced masterpiece – a reassessment of the Berryfield mosaic [Colchester}: P J Wise … 202
• ‘New’ Anglo-Saxon charters of Barking Abbey: J Kemble … 204
  Collegium Chronologicum: H Eiden … 210
  

  Book Reviews

• The Red Hills of Essex: Studying Salt in England: Anwen Cooper … 212
• Elizabeth de Burgh, Lady of Clare (1295 – 1360). Household and other records: Katherine Schofield … 214
• Beeleigh Abbey: A Guide and History : Christopher Starr … 214
• The Borough of Maldon 1688-1800. A Golden Age: Christopher Starr … 215
• Bricks, Buildings and Transport. A History of Mark Gentry, the Hedingham Red Brick Industry, Buildings, Road, and Rail Transport: David Andrews … 215
• A Caring County? Social Welfare in Hertfordshire from 1600: Herbert Eiden … 216
• Essex Bibliography: Andrew Phillips & Paul Sealey … 217