Post-medieval pottery, 7 Cripplegate (EHER 49421)

2016 Test Pit 6. 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 early medieval period and the 16th – 18th centuries. 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 early medieval period and the 16th – 18th centuries. <1> <2> The vast majority of the pottery excavated from Test Pit 6 dates as 19th century ‘Victorian’ wares, with single sherds of both medieval and post medieval wares also found. These have been identified as Mill Green Ware, Glazed Red Earthenware, Cologne Stoneware and Staffordshire Slipware. The other finds consist of tile, ceramic building material (CBM), brick, clay pipe, glass, coal, slate, iron nails and bolts, foil, a nut, ring pull, shotgun cartridge end, button, a handle, pieces of scrap metal, cockle and oyster shell, mortar, animal bone and concrete. Beside the modern material, no date is given for this assemblage. <3>