Post-medieval pottery sherds at Test Pit 4, Clavering Test Pit Survey (EHER 49085)

A test pit survey throughout Clavering following the main high street, Pelham Road, totalling 12 excavation pits. Established where the localised Bronze Age, Medieval and Post Medieval activity was through finds retrieved. This record refers to Test Pit 4. 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 4: A range of pottery types were excavated from CLV/16/4, all of which dated from the mid 16th century and later and have been identified as Glazed Red Earthenware, Staffordshire Slipware, English Stoneware and Staffordshire Manganese Ware. By far the largest quantity of pottery excavated from through the test pit was recorded as Victorian. Despite the proximity of the test pit to the church boundary, there is little in the way of evidence for any activity on site prior to the construction of the cottage during the 17th/18th century, the land was likely open fields or gardens, perhaps even within an earlier church boundary. As ever, the peak of activity on site was during the 19th century and later when there was a great deal of disturbance evident through the garden with the disposal of domestic rubbish. A large mix of finds were also excavated through the test pit with the Victorian pottery and consists of CBM, clay pipe, tile, sewer drain fragments, glass, iron nails, metal hoops and hooks, a metal square handle, metal wire, a metal screw cap, pieces of scrap metal, iron rods, slate, coal, concrete, Bakelite wall fixing, Perspex, animal bone and oyster shell. <1> See also: <2>