Medieval to post-medieval pottery, to the rear of 6 North Street (EHER 48859)

2015 Test Pit 4. Nineteenth century 'Victorian' pottery and two sherds of medieval Essex Grey Ware were recovered from one of 12 test pits excavated as part of an Access Cambridge Archaeology project. The finds suggest the site had a marginal use from the medieval period to the 18th century.

April 2015. Access Cambridge Archaeology test pitting. The vast majority of the pottery excavated from Test Pit 4 dates as 19th century ‘Victorian’ wares that were found mixed through the test pit. Two sherds of Essex Grey Ware were also recorded, but the rest of the pottery found dates from the 16th century onwards as German Stoneware, Glazed Red Earthenware, Delft Ware, English Stoneware and Staffordshire White Salt-Glazed Stoneware. Though the vast majority is Victorian, the earlier material shows that the site had a marginal use from the medieval period to the 18th century. The other finds consist of tile, ceramic building material (CBM), glass, modern nail and screws, iron nails, coal, pieces of floor covering, modern brick fragments, clay pipe, concrete/mortar, a metal bracket, animal bone, possible vitrified CBM and shell. <1>