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The area adjacent to the Haven Cinema on South Square was evaluated prior to development. Four trial trenches were excavated. The earliest remains which were encountered was a mid-late thirteenth century extensive organic rich silt horizon, which was interpreted as a typical urban accumulation. Ceramics, leather off-cuts and worked wood were recovered, which decreased in volume towards the frontage with South Square. Two, possibly three thirteenth and fourteenth century buildings, constructed with cob or wattle and daub, were partially exposed in Trench 1 which had apparently burnt down. Fires are recorded in Boston in 1281 and again in 1287 and 1288 when a Robert Chamberlain was hanged for arson. It is not clear whether these structures had a domestic or more utilitarian function. However, pottery recovered from Trench 1 was burnt and misfired and contained a relatively low percentage of domestic forms. It is therefore tentatively suggested that the structure the context containing the pottery was within may have been associated with pottery production. Additional evidence of pottery making came from Trench 2 in the form of further misfired pottery sherds and secondary context kiln material. This is important because it indicates that Boston was an independent pottery production centre.
Between the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries there was a brick structure on the site, the purpose and exact date of which is unknown, although there was a dump of fired silt, which may indicate a brick or tile kiln. Many pits were recorded which date to the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries. {1}{2} | Subjects: | General Archaeology | Temporal: | 1200 - 1400 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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