Post-medieval pottery sherds at Test Pit 3, Clavering Test Pit Survey (EHER 49084)

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 3. It contained 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 3: Test pit three was excavated to a depth of 0.7m. Natural was not found, but due to time constraints, excavations were halted at this level and the test pit was recorded and backfilled. The vast majority of the pottery excavated from CLV/16/3 dates as Victorian although a single sherd of Midland Blackware was also recorded. Prior to the construction of the house during the late 18th and early 19th century it seems that the land was rarely utilised and was likely left as open fields with slight evidence for use during the 16th century only. A mix of 19th century and later pottery was found mixed through the test pit with a range of finds consisting of tile, CBM, glass, iron nails, slag, coal, oyster shell, animal bone and mortar. <1> See also: <2>