Medieval to post-medieval pottery, Southminster Residential Home, Station Road (West) (EHER 48858)

2015 Test Pit 3. Two sherds of medieval pottery and a small assemblage of 16th to 19th century pottery was recovered from one of 12 test pits excavated as part of an Access Cambridge Archaeology project. The finds suggest the site had a more or less unbroken marginal use from the medieval period to the present day.

April 2015. Access Cambridge Archaeology test pitting. Two sherds of medieval pottery were excavated from Test Pit 3, identified as Essex Grey Ware and Late medieval Colchester ware. The rest of the pottery dates from the 16th century and later as Glazed Red Earthenware, Delft Ware, Staffordshire White Salt-Glazed Stoneware and as 19th century ‘Victorian’ wares. The small quantity of pottery from this test pit shows that the site had a more or less unbroken marginal use from the medieval period to the present day. Other finds consist of tile, ceramic building material (CBM), coal, iron nails, clay pipe, glass, animal bone, oyster shell, a metal hook and pieces of scrap metal. <1>