BCOG is very grateful to Robert Lancaster for providing this exciting information!
"The enjoyable mini-excavation for children in the Community Orchard last year produced quite a few finds, all from the topsoil.
Most were 19th and 20th century pieces of transfer printed pottery (photo 1: go to the link to the slideshow, below) and some 18th to 19th century pottery from Verwood in East Dorset. The oldest finds were a few pieces of medieval pottery. One is from a glazed jug, probably 13th century, and two pieces of cooking pot or jar of about the same age.
There were also a number of fragments of clay tobacco pipe (photo 2) including part of a bowl made by John or James Skeines between 1830 and 1875 in either Southampton or Salisbury.
Cultivation of the allotments has brought to the surface a number of finds including part of a Dr. Roberts of Bridport ointment pot (photo 3), a piece of white salt glazed stoneware bowl with blue decoration that was made between about 1720 to 1770 (photo 4) and part of a slipware dish, probably made in south Somerset in the 17th or 18th centuries (photo 5).
All these bits and pieces help to tell the story of Bridport."
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