Archaeological finds - Walled Garden, Lydiard Park

Pottery sherd with black and brown decoration against a white ground; Limestone fossil with impression of shells; rusted iron wall pin, used for training fruit trees; and an earthenware sherd with a wavy line decoration to the rim. All the items were discovered in the Walled Garden in 2004/5 during archaeological excavations to inform the garden's restoration.

The earthenware sherd has been described as 'Banbury Wear and was thought to come from an ornamental flower pot. Taking measurements from the curvature of the rim, new pots were made for the garden, complete with wavy the line motif.