Post-medieval pottery sherds at Test Pit 5, Clavering Test Pit Survey (EHER 49086)

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 5. 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 5: The vast majority of the pottery excavated from CLV/16/5 dates as Victorian with a small number of additional post-medieval sherds recorded as Glazed Red Earthenware and Cologne Stoneware. Despite the location of CLV/16/5 just to the north of a 13th century original Royal Manor House, built just east of the moated castle site, the excavations yielded no evidence of medieval activity. The on-site occupation recorded instead dates from the 16th century and later during the numerous renovations that were taking place on the property, including inserting a chimney stack as well as changes to the south front that also meant that there was generally more activity on site. Further changes to the outside space of the property may have been why there is a great deal of disturbance noted during the 19th century and later, perhaps with the additions of outbuildings that are still standing nearby today. The finds mainly consist of brick rubble and tile with glass, but additional finds include a bent iron rod and iron nail, slate and coal, a piece of plastic and animal bone. <1> See also: <2>