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When Trym Lodge was being turned into a business centre,
an archaeological investigation was commissioned to evaluate the site.
Westbury-on-Trym has a long history going back to the 8th century AD.
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The evaluation trench
at Trym Lodge where masses of waste pottery was found. This and
come from a local pottery, probably Messrs Yabbacom who specialised
in making sugar loaf moulds and syrup-collecting
jars, large garden planters and tall chimney pots. Some of the chimney
pots may still survive on 18th- and 19th-century
buildings in areas like Clifton and Redland in Bristol.
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Fragments of the
pottery found at Trym Lodge. It was easy to tell that they were
waste sherds because they had been heavily burnt and warped in the
kiln. Some had been re-fired when they were re-used to cover the
kiln top during a later firing.
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For further information contact
Mike Ponsford
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