Medieval to post-medieval pottery sherds at Test Pit 2, Clavering Test Pit Survey (EHER 49083)

A test pit survey throughout Clavering following the main high street, Pelham Road, totalling 12 excavation pits to established where the localised Bronze Age, medieval, and post-medieval activity was through finds retrieved. This record refers to Test Pit 2. It contained medieval and post-medieval pottery.

2016. Test pitting. A test pit survey throughout Clavering following the main high street, Pelham Road, totalling 12 excavation pits to establish where the localised Bronze Age, medieval, and post-medieval activity was through finds retrieved. Test Pit 2: Test pit two was excavated to a depth of 0.6m, with half the test pit excavated further to 0.68m. Natural was not found, but due to time constraints, excavations were halted at this depth and the test pit was recorded and backfilled. A mix of pottery types were excavated from CLV/16/2 and have been identified as medieval Hedingham Ware, post medieval Glazed Red Earthenware and an additional two sherds of Victorian pot. The results from CLV/16/2 suggest that there was activity on site during the high medieval period, potentially the eastern extent of the medieval settlement as identified through the test pitting strategy. A probable change in settlement patterns and land use mean that this land was likely left as open fields until the 19th century when it was incorporated into the land associated with the vicarage and may have then been sparsely utilised for the disposal of rubbish, although only a few finds were also excavated from the test pit, consisting of tile, CBM, a lump of iron, coal, oyster shell and animal bone. <1> See also: <2>