Small finds - Abraded Sherds of Medieval Pottery from Thetford

Now, this is what I call waste scatter! It looks like a haul of medieval ceramics from a farmer's field. The sherds have that sort of abrasion that you see in ploughed fields - sherds that have been moved around in a ploughsoil for centuries. However, they are from a forestry compartment near to Thetford! What it strongly suggests to me, is that this part of the forest was a busy openfield near to Thetford, during around the 11th to 15th centuries and that the local peasants hauled out their garbage with the courtyard waste to add as a manure to the fields - complete with broken pots of all types. I also recorded several Roman, a few Late Saxon, and several prehistoric sherds on the same compartment.

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