Medieval to post-medieval pottery sherds at Test Pit 10, Clavering Test Pit Survey (EHER 49090)

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 10. 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 10: A wide range of pottery wares were excavated from CLV/16/10, the majority of which dates to the mid 16th century and later as Glazed Red Earthenware, Staffordshire Slipware, English Stoneware and Staffordshire White Salt-Glazed Stoneware with a number of sherds identified as Victorian. Also recorded from the test pit were five sherds of medieval pottery that have been recorded as Essex Grey Ware, Hedingham Ware, and Late Medieval Ware. The excavations at CLV/16/10 suggest that there was limited activity on site during the medieval period; the land was likely open fields on the other side of the river from the core of the settlement at that time. It was when the adjacent property was built during the 15th to 16th century that there is evidence for more intense activity on site that continued through until the land was sold and the current house was built and does suggest that the land was once connected. The finds also excavated consist of tile, CBM, clay pipe, sewer drain fragments, glass, iron nails, metal chain links, scrap metal, slate, a nut shell, and animal bone. A single piece of burnt stone was also recorded from context one that may be later prehistoric in date and part of the extended prehistoric settlement already identified through the test pitting strategy. <1> See: <2>