Post-medieval domestic finds Pound Farm, Clacton Road, Thorrington (EHER 80588)

Test Pit 8 were restricted to the 19th to 20th century.

May 2007. Test Pit 8. Two sherds of post medieval pottery were excavated from Test Pit 8, a sherd of Cologne Stoneware from context five and a large sherd of Staffordshire Slipware from context one. The majority of the pottery recovered dates to the Victorian period that was also found through the test pit. The presence of post medieval activity on site was part of the expansion of occupation in Thorrington during that time into previously unoccupied land in the far south east of the village. This area, outside the current property boundary was sparsely utilised during the post medieval and may have been open fields during that time and was not intensively used until Pound Farm was built, perhaps during the 19th century. Large amounts of flowerpot were excavated, with the presence of burnt brick potentially suggests a kiln was located on site for the firing of the modern pots. The rest of the finds excavated include slate, window glass, iron nails, coal, CBM, animal bone, tile and concrete with fragments of drain found through the upper six contexts and are most probably related to the modern improvements made to the property during the 20th century. <1>