NHER 54863 (Find Spot record) - Potentially prehistoric, Roman, medieval to post-medieval and a post-medieval to modern finds

July 2010. 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/10/04) was located at [1] and excavated to natural geological deposits, which were encountered at a depth of 0.8m. Finds recovered included:
2 Roman pottery sherds.
1 late medieval/early post-medieval pottery sherd.
7 post-medieval pottery sherds.
18 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 a possible prehistoric worked flint, 3 flat tile fragments, 1 curved tile fragment, 12 unidentified ceramic building fragments, a slate fragment, pieces of bottle, container and window glass, a button, 2 iron bolts, 5 iron nails, 4 corroded iron scraps, an iron strip, a corroded iron lump and an oyster shell.
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).
P. Watkins (HES), 11 May 2026.