Time Team's Dig Village Masterclass 11: Know Your Pottery

Time Team Teatime: Session 11 - Know Your Pottery, featuring Paul Blinkhorn.
Time Team Teatime: Session 13
Theme performed by Jas Morris.

[@dianejohnston3733]

This is great - thank you - I have found some sherds which are similar to those discussed here - I was always curious to their age.

[@ministerintraining5174]

I can't believe there's no Blinkhorn on the telly no more 😩

[@Rennrogue]

A great little condensation of the subject!

[@TheStevenWhiting]

My house was built in 1895. There is so much broken pot in the garden but as only purchased in 2018 I can't work out if any of it is old or just junk from the building work from when they put decking and a patio in the garden.

[@Kevin-mx1vi]

Mine was built in 1930. It stands on what was once grazing land, then in 1880 the plot was sold for building but stood unused for 50 years. There are water sources nearby so it's probable that people have lived in the locality for hundreds of years, and possible that the unused plot was used as a rubbish dump by nearby pre-1880 Victorian houses, so unraveling it's history from shards of pottery that I find would be virtually impossible.
From the number of bricks that I find whenever I put a spade in the ground it would be logical to conclude that someone demolished a house and buried it in my garden ! 😉

[@Celtic2Realms]

@@Kevin-mx1vi the brick could be from a demolished building yet before plastic drainage pipes people made water drains covered with bricks in a A shape cover. Note you said there were water sources nearby. A small test pit may give an answer

[@Kevin-mx1vi]

@@Celtic2Realms Actually, I suspect that there may once have been a low wall running the length of the garden (around 100 feet) because the bricks I find are of a similar age to the house, and it would fit with where the original garden path once was. This would have been demolished when the driveway was laid.