Monument record 4505 - St Chad's Church Archaeological Evaluation

An archaeological evaluation using two trenches. Trench 1 - Romano-British ceramic vessel sherds, industrial waste fragments, black-glazed earthenware, 3 sherds of brown-glazed earthenware, 2 fragments of willow-pattern, 1 rim sherd fro a Midlands Yellow ware pharmaceutical vessel, 2 small fragments of Mottled ware, a single sherd of white stoneware and four clay tobacco pipe stems.
Trench 2 - 2 inhumations which will remain insitu, single fragment of body sherd constructed from an orange sandy fabric with an orange/brown exterior, black and brown glazed earthenware, white glazed stoneware, iron objects - either nails or associated funerary fittings for coffins, single copper alloy shroud-pin, single sherd of 14th/16th century ceramic and a single clay pipe stem (1).

<1> CBA Northwest Project Summary Sheet, St Chad's Church Arch Eval (Unpublished Report). SCH4564.

<2> Gifford and Partners, 2001, St Chads Church, Farndon, Chester: Report on an Archaeological Excavation (Client Report). SCH4227.