WORK PARTY
After this absorbing introduction to the landscape, our afternoon session took the form of a conservation working party under the direction of Adrian Gascoyne, the Countryside Archaeological Advisor to Essex County Council Heritage & Conservation branch. With the permission of the owners, a start was made on clearing blackthorn and elder scrub which is encroaching on the central mound and threatening the archaeology. This was an initial foray into what we hope will develop as a major landscape project for Clavering, supplying community involvement in hope of obtaining grant funding for archaeology and other investigations.

Photographs by Adrian Gascoyne

Anyone interested in further information or wanting to join the project can contact Adrian Gascoyne at County Hall, Chelmsford or email: Jacqueline Cooper . This community project promises to gradually discover and disseminate more about our heritage in Clavering. As a postscript below is the description from the National Sites & Monuments Record, from which it can be seen that Christopher Taylor's new look at the site offers a challenge to the traditional one. At some future date, our castle project may well come up with a new interpretation.