Roman, medieval and post-medieval pottery, King George V Memorial Playing Field, off Station Road (South) (EHER 48866)

2015 Test Pit 11. Post-medieval pottery, six sherds of Roman pottery, a small amount of medieval pottery were recovered from one of 12 test pits excavated as part of an Access Cambridge Archaeology project. The finds suggest the site was occupied in the Roman period and abandoned until it experienced marginal activity in the medieval period and reoccupied in the 19th century.

April 2015. Access Cambridge Archaeology test pitting. The vast majority of the pottery excavated from Test Pit 11 dates as 19th century ‘Victorian’ wares, but a small amount of both medieval and post-medieval wares were also recorded through the test pit as Mill Green Ware, Staffordshire White Salt-Glazed Stoneware, Glazed Red Earthenware and English Stoneware. An additional six sherds of Roman pottery were also recorded from the test pit. This site appears to have been occupied in the Roman period, after which time it was abandoned. There then appears to have been marginal activity in the medieval and early post-medieval periods, after when it was largely abandoned until the Victorian era. The finds also excavated were mixed through the test pit with the Victorian pottery and consist of iron nails and bolts, coal, slag, detachable drink can pulls, CBM, glass, tile, clay pipe, pieces of scrap metal and animal bone. <1>