Roman pottery and post-medieval domestic finds The Old Rectory, Church Road, Thorrington (EHER 80585)

2007 Test Pit 1 contained Roman pottery. The rest of the finds were restricted to the 19th to 20th century.

May 2007. Test Pit 1 and 9. One sherd of Roman Greyware pottery was excavated from context one, but the assemblage was dominated by Victorian pottery found from the upper three contexts of Test Pit 1. The single small sherd of Roman pottery suggests that this site was most probably open fields during that time, as scattered evidence for Roman occupation has been identified through test pitting in the south east of Thorrington. The site continued as open fields until the current house was built in the 1860s, the finds and the majority of the pottery relate to the occupation on site during the 19th and 20th centuries. The finds include animal bone, slate, coal, window and bottle glass, tile, CBM, oyster shell, iron nails, fragments of drain and a button and were mixed through all five of the contexts excavated. Five sherds of Victorian pottery were only recovered from context two of Test Pit 9. Although not much of the test pit was actually excavated, the finds and pottery recovered suggest a similar story of land use to those found from Test Pit 1 located to the rear of the property. Prior to the construction of the house in the 1860s there appears to be little to no earlier activity on site; the slate, modern bottle glass, coal and CBM are all more recent finds relating to the occupation post 1860 and were excavated with the pottery from context two. <1>