Glass:

Bottle – 31.8g. Dark green / brown glass. Extensive iridescent decay products coating all surfaces (including breaks). Fragment of curving wall near base of English bottle. The apparent angle of the wall of the glass bottle suggests this fragment is more likely to derive from a shaft and globe or onion bottle rather than the later cylindrical or mallet types of bottle. If this is the case then a 17th or early 18th century date would be most likely.

Lithics:

Secondary flint flake, 6.6g. 22mm (L) x 24mm (B), maximum 10mm thick. Dorsal surface preserves areas of thin, water worn cortex and the scars of at least two earlier removals from two different platforms, one flake terminating in a step fracture caused by a flaw in the raw material. Partially calcined and thoroughly heat shattered with colour modified to light grey throughout with patchy white colour change to knapped surfaces. Extensive damage post burning particularly to the margins, and including the loss of the platform and most of the bulb.

Bone:

Hog tooth. Canine, tip.

Other butchered animal bones, not collected. Showed clear evidence of butchery, being cut into short lengths as would be found in a joint of meat.

Pottery:

The ceramic assemblage is of post medieval date. A range of wares is represented. Though the material was unstratified, the dates that the various wares were produced overlap in the late 16th to early 17th centuries.

If these sherds are associated rather than representing separate episodes of loss or deposition then they could be assigned a late 16th to early 17th century date. A range of sources are represented, mostly regional imports rather than locally produced wares. This matches the general pattern of ceramic production and distribution in the region at this time, where a smaller number of large rural industries supplied their products to much larger areas than the preceding, more numerous, medieval industries.

The size and condition of the sherds suggest they were not derived from a primary disposal context. However, the minor abrasion even of the soft sherds suggests the pottery has not been extensively disturbed as might be expected if it had spent any length of time in a plough soil

David Budge, 2012, Site Inspection on Groundworks for Construction of a Path, Seating Areas and Shelter at South Wheatley (Unpublished document). SNT5762.