Medieval and post-medieval pottery, 85 Burnham Road (EHER 49422)

2016 Test Pit 7. 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 late medieval period and the 16th-18th centuries. Other finds were also recovered and seem to be largely contemporary with the pottery.

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 late medieval period and the 16th – 18th centuries. <1> <2> A range of 15th century and later wares were recorded from Test Pit 7 as Late medieval ware, Glazed Red Earthenware, Staffordshire Slipware and English Stoneware. The vast majority of the pottery identified from the test pit however dates as 19th century ‘Victorian’ wares. The vast majority of the finds seem to be contemporary with the pottery, consisting of clay pipe, ceramic building material (CBM), tile, glass, iron nails and bolts, slag, scrap metal, coal, slate, mortar, a plastic tent peg, a plastic button, melted plastic, shell, including oyster and animal bone. <3>