NHER 3584 (Monument record) - Site of Late Saxon and medieval pottery works

1963.
Scatter of Thetford ware sherds on field and green glazed sherds, late 13th to 14th (and wasters, kiln material. E. Rose (NAU)).
Kilns located by proton magnetometer, see [1].
See (S1) and (S2).
Seen E. B. Green (NCM)

1963/4.
Magnetometer survey by [1] led to excavation of one kiln, oval updraught, 1.5m x 0.8m (5' x 2'9") (internally at 0.3m (12") deep).
Clay walls 0.21m to 0.22m (8 to 9") thick stood to 0.5m (21") at south end, their top at 0.3m (12") deep.
No kiln furniture but stoke hole at north end was excavated for 2.1m (7') from kiln flue, a maximum depth 1.5m (5') below ground level.
Kiln sampled for magnetic dating.
Clinker from smelting and fragments of iron nearby.
Pottery included 11th to 12th century Thetford storage jars and spouted pitchers.
Other sites not fully excavated yielded hard paler pottery with wavey combed designs, plain round bottomed pot, 3 handles pitcher and 2 handles costrel.
B. Beeby.

1964.
Large quantities of Thetford ware sherds, small proportions of wasters and kiln material, on areas indicated by magnetic survey.
See (S3).
E. B. Green (NCM)