Post-medieval pottery sherds at Test Pit 8, Clavering Test Pit Survey (EHER 49089)

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. This record refers to Test Pit 8. 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 8: Ten sherds of Victorian pottery were excavated from the lower contexts of CLV/16/8. The excavations at CLV/16/8 suggest that there was little in the way of activity prior to the 19th century; although even then it was probably open fields until the current line of houses were built during the 20th century. A mix of finds were recorded through the depth of the test pit and consists of tile, brick fragments, clay pipe, tile, glass, coal, slate, iron nails, metal rods, foil, scrap metal, plastic drinks caps and burnt material. <1> See: <2>