Medieval and post-medieval pottery, Southminster Residential Care Home, Station Road (EHER 49430)

2017 Test Pit 5. One of ten test pits excavated in Southminster as part of the Access Cambridge Archaeology Project. This site appears to have a marginal use in the late medieval period, but was then largely abandoned in the post-medieval era. Other finds were also recovered but are mostly modern.

April 2017. Access Cambridge Archaeology test pitting. One of ten test pits excavated in Southminster as part of the Access Cambridge Archaeology Project. This site appears to have a marginal use in the late medieval period, but was then largely abandoned in the post-medieval era. <1> <2> All the pottery excavated from Test Pit 5 dates to the 15th century and later as Late medieval ware, English Stoneware, Staffordshire White Salt-Glazed Stoneware and as 19th century ‘Victorian’ wares. This area of the garden may have been utilised for the disposal of builder's rubbish. The other finds consist of ceramic building material (CBM), clay pipe, glass, coal, slate, metal rods, modern nails, a one penny coin dated 1976, a metal button, pieces of plastic, cement, mortar, plaster, brick and tile fragments, plastic wire covering, metal nails, roof lining, oyster shell, slag, plastic cable ties, a plastic wall plug, metal mesh material, modern tile fragments, a metal bracket, spring and wire, polystyrene and a possible sandstone tile fragment. <3>