Find Spot record MDO4771 - Late medieval/post-medieval pottery, Stoke Wake

A dense scatter of pottery dating to around the 15th century was recorded during work on the Ansty to Stoke Wake Water Main in 1991. The spread did not appear to be associated with any occupation.

<1> Hearne, C M, 1991, Ansty to Stoke Wake Main. Archaeological Watching Brief Observations., 3.2 4.1 (Unpublished document). SDO207.

‘… two areas of potential interest were recorded based on dense scatters of pottery within localised areas along the route. The first scatter (context 1) comprised a spread of late medieval/post-medieval pottery (see below, Section 7) within the central part of Plot 2, equating to the highest part of the field. The pottery was recorded in the yellowish-brown clay subsoil across the full width of the easement (11m corridor stripped) along a 40m length (Fig. 1). The spread did not appear to be associated with subsoil features and no in situ occupation horizon was evident.’

<2> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1992, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1991, 185 (Serial). SDO91.

‘… two localised dense scatters of medieval and post-medieval pottery revealed after topsoil stripping. … The second scatter comprised a spread of late medieval/post-medieval pottery located on the highest part of the field from which it was recovered (ST 7572 0631), extending some 40m along the pipeline route and across the full (11 m) corridor width. Nearly all of the sherds were in a fine, soft, slightly sandy fabric, firing orange, with a much-abraded glaze apparent on many sherds. A date somewhere in the 15th century is appropriate and the homogeneity of the fabric suggests that all the vessels are from a single (unknown) source.’

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