Struck flake, possibly Palaeolithic with later working to turn it into a scraper.
2 pieces of the same bottle, green glass
English stoneware
Iron lumps
Stem
Contained ten sherds, nine of which are from one vessel. The vessel represented by nine sherds (206g) from [001] is in a hard, reduced fabric with common fine to medium sand and sparse voids from plant material. Most of the sherd edges are very fresh showing breakage upon excavation. Five of the sherds refit to form a substantial rim and wall fragment, 15cm high. A slight flaring of the vessel wall at the lower end suggests that the profile is complete almost the base. Wall width is generally 1.1cm. Too little of the rim diameter survives for accurate measurement, but it seems to be 20cm or more. The vessel can be described as a coarseware bowl of 'saucepan pot' type with an upright rim and slack shoulder. The rim profile varies along the sherd, at one end being of a simple rounded form, and at the other being irregularly thickened both internally and externally to give a slightly T-shaped profile. The upper surface of the rim is embellished with fingernail impressions, placed diagonally to give a 'cabled' effect. The outer surface of the pot has a rough feel, and at the shoulder is actually fairly irregularly formed.
The remaining sherd (6g) from [001] is a rim in a hard fabric with common fine to medium sand and sparse medium to coarse chalk. This is a simple upright flat-topped rim with no decoration. In form and fabric the bowl from [001] is characteristic of the later Iron Age (after c. 300 BC) of eastern England.
Hard sandy fabric similar to the vessel from [001]. This appears to be a base angle sherd.
Pipe stem.
Oyster shell.
21 shards, including one Central Gaulish Samian dish dated mid 2nd century AS and four sherds from a Hadham oxidised ware vessel dated mid 3rd-4th century AD. A black slipped dog dish from this context dates to the 2nd-4th century AD and the remaining sherds are also probably of this date range.
Two sherds probably post-Roman are separated.
Jackfield-Staffordshire red
Burnt residue on interiors
Plant pot
1 medieval with stabbed handle
Rusticated Beaker pottery found with worked flints (see JCW04-013). Four decorated sherds that can be refitted to make one large body sherd. Rows of fingertip rustication interspersed with double rows of narrow, vertical reed/quill impressions. As well as fresh breaks the fragments also include 'false-rim' fractures where the pot has separated along the joints between coils.
Can be dated to the early 2nd millennium BC, and most likely from a domestic context.
4 Roman, 1 Saxon or Iron Age
Butchering
In situ teeth
Butchering, calcined
Tr. 1: Single copper alloy lace chape or aiglet similar to <134> above; length 21.44mm.
F.18: A mixed context. This contained two sherds of 19th century refined white earthenware (30g), a sherd of 19th century lead-glazed earthenware (8g), two sherds of 18th century Staffordshire salt-glazed stoneware (11g), a sherd of 18th century Chinese export porcelain (7g), a sherd of 18th century Westerwald stoneware (3g), a sherd of 18th century creamware (4g), seven sherds of 16th to 17th century German stoneware (including both Frechen and Raeren) weighing 85g, nine sherds of 16th to 17th century Babylon-type lead-glazed earthenware (44g), one sherd of 16th to 17th century bichromatic red earthenware (15g), 15 sherds of 16th to 17th glazed red earthenware (178g), 20 sherds of 16th to 17th century plain red coarseware (including plant pot) weighing 391g and six sherds of residual 13th to 15th century grey coarseware (50g).
F.52: a mixed context. This contained a sherd of 19th century refined white earthenware (5g), a sherd of 16th to 19th century plain red coarseware (4g), a sherd of 13th to 15th century buff coarseware (3g) and six sherds of 13th to 15th century grey coarseware (97g).
