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Summary

Four post holes and a narrow vertical-sided slot, containing 18th and 18th century pottery, were exposed during archaeological evaluation on land to the north of the Joiners' Arms.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• ARCHAEOLOGICAL FEATURE (Post Medieval to XIX - 1540 AD to 1900 AD (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1855-1895, First Edition 1:500 Town Map (Cartographic). SDV338879.

This area is shown as a yard or garden to the north of the Joiners' arms.

Bampton, J. + Morris, B., 2012, 8-11 Market Place, Bideford, Devon. Results of an Archaeological Evaluation, 14; figures 8-10, 13 (Report - Evaluation). SDV350070.

Trench 4 was located in the northern corner of the upper, western burgage plot, and in the north-east part of the trench a soil layer was preserved. This produced 60 sherds of medieval North Devon pottery, and appeared to seal a small posthole, which contained (perhaps as post-packing) a smithing-hearth bottom. This buried soil had been truncated, and was cut by a shallow concave pit containing a dark humic deposit . This was then sealed by a thin deposit of white lime mortar, probably the floor of a post-medieval structure. This floor was overlain by a number of successive layers of waste: a dump of ashes and burnt material, and dumps of redeposited stony natural subsoil. These deposits were sealed by a layer of dark brown friable garden loam 0.5-0.7m thick. Cutting through the floor and later dumped deposits were four postholes and a slot. The four postholes were located on the western side of the trench, the northern posthole was much more substantial than the others and contained a packing fill and post-pipe fill from which 19th century pottery was recovered. The fills of the other three postholes contained no dating evidence. A narrow vertical-sided slot, aligned roughly east-west, extended from the eastern edge of the trench. It contained 18th and 19th century pottery, clay pipe and animal bone. The cut may have been intended as a pipe or construction trench, but there was no evidence for either. See report for full details.
Map object based on this source.

Ordnance Survey, 2013, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV350786.

Map object based on this source.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds

• FDV5362 - SHERD (XIII to XIX - 1201 AD to 1900 AD)

Associated Events

• EDV6025 - Evaluation at 8-11 Market Place (Ref: 120903)

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