An oval pit , measuring 0.92m (only partially exposed) x 0.87m and 0.34m deep was unearthed at the most south western aspect of the house plot . Its fill consisted of loose mid greyish brown silty loam, from which 14 sherds of pottery and 4 fragments of animal bone were retrieved. The pottery assemblage included sherds from six ware types, ranging in date from late Saxon and Saxo-Norman through early medieval to high medieval; the most recent sherds are probably of 13th-century date, while the earliest dates to the 10th or 11th century. The animal bone was too fragmentary to provide much information: a single tooth could be identified as deriving from a sheep or goat, but the other fragments could not be classified more accurately than ‘large mammal’, indicating that they derived from an animal of the size of a cow or horse

R. Dickinson and R. D. Savage, 2018, Land Adjacent to Shepherd’s Cottage, Main Street, Flawborough, Nottinghamshire, Page 6 (Unpublished document). SNT5605.