NHER 52974 (Find Spot record) - Medieval/post-medieval and post-medieval to modern finds

June 2009. Test Pit.
Excavation of single test pit by local school children as part of the Higher Education Field Academy (HEFA) programme run by Access Cambridge Archaeology.
This test pit (ACL/09/6) was located at [1] and excavated to natural geological deposits, which were encountered at a depth of 0.8m.
Finds recovered include:
1 late medieval/early post-medieval pottery sherd.
11 post-medieval pottery sherds and 9 clay tobacco pipe fragments.
197 late post-medieval/modern pottery sherds.
This test pit also produced a range of other finds that were not subject to specialist examination, the majority of which are either of probable late post-medieval to modern date or inherently undatable. These additional objects include 5 possible prehistoric worked flints, 13 burnt stones, 65 unidentified ceramic building material fragments, 1 brick fragment, 6 curved roof tile fragments, 4 flat tile fragments, 2 slate fragments, various pieces of vessel, bottle and window glass, a belt buckle, a button, 3 pieces of metal wire, 4 iron nails, 6 pieces of scrap iron, a possible slag fragment and 4 oyster shells.
For further details, including a wider discussion of the results of the HEFA test pitting surveys undertaken in Acle between 2009 and 2014 see report (S1), which incorporates information from pottery report (S2). See also local press article (S3).
P. Watkins (HES), 7 May 2026.