Medieval to post-medieval pottery sherds at Test Pit 11, Clavering Test Pit Survey (EHER 49092)

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 11. It contained medieval to 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 11: All the pottery excavated from CLV/16/11 dates to the mid 16th century and later as Glazed Red Earthenware, English Stoneware and the majority was identified as Victorian. The results of CLV/16/11 suggest that there was limited activity on site prior to the construction of the cottage during the 18th century, being most likely utilised as fields particularly from the 16th century. The use of the property as a pub during the 19th century in particular may explain the particularly large number of finds that were recorded for that time and the high level of disturbance across the garden. The presence of a brick feature also identified in the test pit that was slightly curving in design, may have been the top of an oven or other similar feature. The confines of the test pit and the limited time meant that full excavation of the feature was not possible. The finds excavated from test pit 11 consist of clay pipe, tile, CBM, sewer drain, modern tile, glass, slate, coal, mortar, iron nails, metal wire, a coin/token, a metal button, iron tacks, scrap metal, aluminium, metal rods, horseshoe fragment, wire and screws with animal bone, a plastic comb and plastic tubing.