Post-medieval pottery sherds at Test Pit 7, Clavering Test Pit Survey (EHER 49088)

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 7. 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 7: The vast majority of the pottery excavated from CLV/16/7 dates as Victorian, although single sherds of both post-medieval Glazed Red Earthenware and Staffordshire White Salt-Glazed Stoneware were also recorded. The excavation at CLV/16/7 suggests that there was little in the way of activity on site prior to the construction of the cottage during the 17th to 18th century, but the delay during the excavation due to the discovery of a relatively recent dog burial (wrapped in plastic), meant that natural was not found and there may be the potential for earlier finds at a greater depth. There was a lot of disturbance during the 19th century also, when a lot of rubbish appears to have been spread across site, the dog burial then disturbing this further through the four contexts of the test pit. The other finds also recorded consist of brick fragments, clay pipe, CBM, tile, glass, iron nails and bolts, strips of metal, a metal washer and a tiny metal spoon with plastic wrappers and flower pot fragments, a plastic screw cap and mussel shell. <1> See also: <2>