Bronze Age pottery sherds, burnt flint, and burnt stone at Test Pit 9, Clavering Test Pit Survey (EHER 81971)

A test pit survey throughout Clavering following the main high street, Pelham Road, totalling 12 excavation pits to establish where the localised Bronze Age, medieval, and post-medieval activity was through finds retrieved. This record refers to Test Pit 9. It contained Bronze Age pottery.

2016. Test pitting. A test pit survey throughout Clavering following the main high street, Pelham Road, totalling 12 excavation pits to established where the localised Bronze Age, medieval, and post-medieval activity was through finds retrieved. Test Pit 9: A single sherd of Late Bronze Age pottery was recorded from the lowest context of CLV/10/9. The sherd of Bronze Age pottery from CLV/16/9 is the only one to be identified through the test pitting strategy in Clavering and has shown that there was a shift in the focus of activity from the Neolithic to the northeast to the high ground south of the river where the primary school now sits. Three pieces of burnt stone and the three pieces of worked flint that were also found are likely to be Bronze Age in date too, given the presence of pottery of that date, although analysis by a specialist would also be needed to confirm this. <1> See: <2>