Post-medieval pottery, Allotments, Pantile Road (EHER 49426)

2017 Test Pit 1. One of ten test pits excavated in Southminster as part of the Access Cambridge Archaeology Project. The pottery from this test pit shows that the site was not used until the post-medieval period, and probably had a marginal use, such as fields, from the 16th to 18th centuries.

April 2017. Access Cambridge Archaeology test pitting. One of ten test pits excavated in Southminster as part of the Access Cambridge Archaeology Project. The pottery from this test-pit shows that the site was not used until the post-medieval period, and probably had a marginal use, such as fields, from the 16th to 18th centuries. <1> <2> All the pottery excavated from Test Pit 1 dates to the mid-15th century and later and has been identified as Glazed Red Earthenware, English Stoneware, Staffordshire White Salt-Glazed Stoneware and as 19th century ‘Victorian’ wares. The other finds recorded include modern screws and nails, ceramic building material (CBM), tile, charcoal, glass, pieces of Perspex, rubber, plastic, iron nails and bolts, pieces of scrap metal, slate, coal, a metal door hook, slag, mortar, modern tile, clay pipe and oyster shell. <3>