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| HHER Number: | 13757 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | MEDIEVAL POTTERY, BURGE END LANE, PIRTON |
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Summary
Unstratified sherds including St Neots ware, indicating occupation beyond the present village limits
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Late Saxon to Medieval - 870 AD to 1500 AD)
Associated Finds
- SHERD (Late Saxon to Medieval - 870 AD to 1500 AD)
Associated Events
- Test pits in Pirton village, 2007 (Ref: PIR/07)
Full description
A test pit in a field behind West End Lane, near Burge End Lane, yielded 'substantial quantities of pottery (18 sherds from 4 spits) dating to 1100-1400 AD, strongly suggestive of the presence of settlement in this area in this period'. Two sherds of St Neots ware (AD 900-1200) were also present <1, 2>. A test pit dug in the SE corner of the same field in 2008 produced another sherd of St Neots ware <3>.
<1> Lewis, Carenza, 2008, Test pit excavation within currently occupied rural settlement in East Anglia - results of the HEFA CORS project in 2007; Medieval Settlement Research Group Annual Report 22, 48-56, Pit PIR07/4, Fig 9; p52-3 (Article in serial). SHT7977.
<2> Blinkhorn, Paul, 2007, Pottery from Pirton test-pits (PIR/07) (Unpublished document). SHT18153.
<3> Blinkhorn, Paul, 2008, Pottery from Pirton test-pits (PIR/08) (Unpublished document). SHT8425.
Sources and further reading
| <1> | Article in serial: Lewis, Carenza. 2008. Test pit excavation within currently occupied rural settlement in East Anglia - results of the HEFA CORS project in 2007; Medieval Settlement Research Group Annual Report 22, 48-56. Pit PIR07/4, Fig 9; p52-3. |
| <2> | Unpublished document: Blinkhorn, Paul. 2007. Pottery from Pirton test-pits (PIR/07). |
| <3> | Unpublished document: Blinkhorn, Paul. 2008. Pottery from Pirton test-pits (PIR/08). |
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