Iron Age, medieval and post-medieval pottery, King George V Playing Field, off Station Road (EHER 49433)

2017 Test Pit 8. One of ten test pits excavated in Southminster as part of the Access Cambridge Archaeology Project. This site was probably occupied during the Iron Age, but then fell into disuse until the late medieval period, when it appears to have had a marginal use such as fields. It then fell into disuse again until relatively recently.

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 was probably occupied during the Iron Age, but then fell into disuse until the late medieval period, when it appears to have had a marginal use such as fields. It then fell into disuse again until relatively recently. <1> <2> A single sherd of Iron Age pottery was excavated from the lower context of Test Pit 8 and both Late medieval ware and 19th century ‘Victorian’ wares were excavated from the upper context. The other finds that were excavated consist of a modern nail, a metal rod, animal bone, glass, a tiny piece of plastic, clay pipe, ceramic building material (CBM), tile, a lump of scrap metal and a piece of coal. <3>