Garshall Green, 18th Century Squatters' Cottage
Author: Janet Carnes, Stoke-on-Trent Museum Archaeological Society
Resistivity showed the outlines of a building at Garshall Green, Staffordshire, and the Society undertook excavations from 1997 to 2003. The main feature to emerge was a house platform belonging to what is now thought to be a 17 - 18th century peasant or squatters' cottage. Below is a cross section of finds from the site; the earliest pottery is mid 17th century.
Excavation in progress (Staffordshire Past-Track)
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 18th Century Button |
 Stoneware vessel |
 Westerwalt stoneware(Charles II) |
 Close view of centre plate |
 Midlands yellow plate (17th century) |
 18th century glass drinking vessel |
 Salt-glazed scratch blue (18th century) |
Stoke-on-Trent Museum Archaeological Society, April 2006.
