Medieval to post-medieval pottery sherds at Test Pit 6, Clavering Test Pit Survey (EHER 49087)

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 6. 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 6: The majority of the pottery excavated from CLV/16/6 dates to the medieval period as both Essex Grey Ware and Hedingham Ware. An additional three sherds of Victorian pottery were also identified. The results from CLV/16/6 suggest that there was occupation on site during the high medieval period but was abandoned prior to the construction of the current structure during the 16th century. This site may actually have been part of a larger property, likely a farm as the listing states that the original structure has non-domestic origins, so may have been a barn initially. As only a small amount of post 16th century finds were recorded from the test pit which suggests that there has likely always been little in the way of activity on site as well as not a great deal of disturbance. The few finds that were found consist of tile and CBM, bottle glass, an iron nail, oyster shell and animal bone. <1> See: <2>