Archaeological trial-trenching at 16-20 Mill Road, Stock, Essex, March 2011

Evaluation by two trenches adjacent to Pottery House revealed a pit containing a 15kg group of post-medieval red earthenware and 3.7kg of broken peg-tile fragments covered in glaze (presumably dumped here after pottery-making had come to an end). The kiln, which produced Metropolitan slipware and post-medieval red earthenware products in the late 17th and 18th centuries, was not located, but must have been nearby.
Other features included the brick foundations and clay floor of the recentlydemolished frontage building, two post-medieval post-holes, and two post-medieval pits.