NHER 52721 (Find Spot record) - Post medieval pottery sherds and cobbled floor surface, Flaxwell

2008. Test-pitting.
The vast majority of the pottery excavated from test pit three dates to the Victorian period, which was also excavated from every context. Single large sherds of Glazed Red Earthenware and Staffordshire Manganese Ware were also excavated in the lower contexts of the test pit.
The lack of earlier finds suggest that the land was potentially fields during the post medieval period, although the site is in an area populated during the medieval and post medieval periods. The modern finds and Victorian pottery have disturbed all the contexts and include small fragments of building rubble, modern glass, slate, coal and iron nails.
A flint cobble floor surface was uncovered at 0.46m in depth and is most probably a Victorian yard surface, potentially related to the cottages that previously stood on site.
See (S1).
A. Cattermole (NLA), 19 March 2009.