NHER 69850 (Find Spot record) - Roman, Late Saxon, medieval to post-medieval and post-medieval to modern finds

April 2013. 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/13/3) was located at [1] and excavated to natural geological deposits, which were encountered at a depth of 1.00m.
Finds recovered include:
1 Roman pottery sherd.
4 Late Saxon pottery sherds.
3 medieval pottery sherds (all early medieval ware).
2 late medieval/early post-medieval pottery sherds.
24 post-medieval pottery sherds and 21 clay tobacco pipe fragments.
55 late post-medieval/modern pottery sherds.
This test pit also produced a number of other finds that were not subject to specialist examination, most, if not all, of which are either of probable late post-medieval to modern date or inherently undatable. These additional objects include 9 flat tile fragments, 4 tile fragments of unspecified type(s), 78 ceramic building material fragments, a slate fragment, a slate pencil, bottle, vessel and probable window glass fragments, a metal ?button, an iron possible horseshoe fragment, 2 iron bolts, 4 iron nails, an iron rod, 2 corroded iron lumps, a piece of iron slag 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), 12 May 2026.