Medieval and post-medieval pottery, Wing Cottage, 48 Queen Street (EHER 49417)

2016 Test Pit 2. One of ten test pits excavated in Southminster as part of the Access Cambridge Archaeology Project. Most of the pottery from this test-pit is Victorian, indicating that the site was not used before that time, other than perhaps as fields in the 16th – 17th century. Other finds were also recovered but remain undated.

April 2016. Access Cambridge Archaeology test pitting. One of ten test pits excavated in Southminster as part of the Access Cambridge Archaeology Project. Most of the pottery from this test-pit is Victorian, indicating that the site was not used before that time, other than perhaps as fields in the 16th – 17th century. <1> All the pottery excavated from Test Pit 2 dates to the mid 16th century and later as both Glazed Red Earthenware and 19th century ‘Victorian’ wares. The other finds consist of ceramic building material (CBM), tile, clay pipe, glass, iron nails, slag, buttons, cogs, strips of metal, part of a pipe, a valve, coal, slate, plastic, cockle shell and animal bone (some of which was burnt). Prior to the construction of the house the land was likely open fields that had particular use during the 16th century onwards. <2>