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Potsherds from Thetford Forest
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Small finds - Potsherds - typical sample from Thetford Forest
Don't look like much, but sherds of pottery like these, collected over a large enough surveyed area, will, I hope, help to tell me or someone else, something about land use in the past. Potsherds are almost everywhere, but in the poor sandy soils of the Brecklands, there are fewer. How did they get there? Well, some might suggest settlement, or burial, or industry, etc. However, lots of these abraded little sherds were originally deposited in their location, when they were dumped with domestic waste onto the fields with manure. I'm hoping to map the scatters of these potsherds in Thetford Forest. More on that in the Waste Scatter page
So, what periods do the above, typical Thetford Forest example come from? Well, I would guess, the two on the right - weak flaky looking with large inclusions are prehistoric - Iron Age or maybe Bronze Age. The two little sherds on the left - medieval probably, although one looks possibly Roman. I recorded them at Wangford, Suffolk on forest-walk 34. What do you think?
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