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Short Description:
Subsoil
Issued to
Susan Dole | 08/07/2016
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Interpretation

    • subsoil
      • Warren Tomlinson
    • 8-7-2016
    • Subsoil deposit
      • Johanna Ungemach
    • 25-10-2016

Sketch Photo

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Description

  • Firm
  • Mid brown
  • Silty sand
  • Charcoal deposits, sub angular stones and sub rounded stones
  • Length - 30.0 metres Width - 2.0 meters Depth - 0.07m - 0.12m estimated
  • Bands of stone accumulations.Quartz found between a band of stone.
  • Trowelling, wet and windy

Finds

FindtypeQuantity (No. fragments)Weight (g)Notes
Pot 70 360 North
Clay Tobacco Pipe 2 3 North, 1 burnt
Ceramic Building Material 4 43 North
Pot 1 1 North, probably Bronze Age
Pot 2 8 North, possibly medieval
Clay Tobacco Pipe 1 2 South
Pot 21 57 South, post-medieval
Pot 24 42 Central, post-medieval
Other (add to description) 1 3 Central, moulded terracotta, possibly Roman
Other (add to description) 1 0.5 North, copper alloy fragment from .303 rifle cartridge case
Ferrous Object 2 30 North, iron nail
Glass 2 12 North, green
Glass 2 5 Central, green
Stone 1 51 South, Haematite
Stone 1 5 South, chert tool
Stone 3 10 South, chert
Stone 9 82 South, quartzite
Flint 1 0.5 South, flint
Stone 1 41 North, heat affected stone
Stone 1 0.5 North, chert tool
Stone 7 40 North, chert fragments
Stone 8 18 North, worked chert
Stone 14 64 North, quartzite
Flint 1 1 North, flint tool fragment
Flint 4 7 North, possibly broken flint tools
Flint 2 6 North, heat affected flint

Feature

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Site Photos

  • Photo: BLS_162380
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    • Feature at Northern end of Trench 1
  • Photo: BLS_162381
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    • Feature at Northern end of Trench 1
  • Photo: BLS_162382
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    • Feature at Northern end of Trench 1
  • Photo: BLS_162623
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    • Northern end of Trench 1, facing North
  • Photo: BLS_162624
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    • Northern end of Trench 1, facing South
  • Photo: BLS_162625
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    • Feature at Southern end of Trench 1, facing West
  • Photo: BLS_162626
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    • Feature at Southern end of Trench 1, facing South
  • Photo: BLS_162627
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    • Feature at Southern end of Trench 1, facing North
  • Photo: BLS_162628
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    • Feature at Southern end of Trench 1, facing West
  • Photo: BLS_162630
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    • Feature at Southern end of Trench 1, facing South
  • Photo: BLS_162631
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    • Feature at Southern end of Trench 1, facing South
  • Photo: BLS_162633
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    • Feature at Northern end of Trench 1, discoloured stone
  • Photo: BLS_162634
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    • Feature at Northern end of Trench 1, discoloured stone
  • Photo: BLS_162635
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    • Feature at Northern end of Trench 1, visible as change in soil texture
  • Photo: BLS_162696
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    • Trench 1 feature at Northern tip, facing South
  • Photo: BLS_162697
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    • Trench 1 feature at Northern tip, facing East
  • Photo: BLS_162698
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    • Trench 1 feature at Northern tip, facing North West
  • Photo: BLS_162726
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    • Trench 1 feature at Southern end, facing West
  • Photo: BLS_162727
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    • Trench 1 feature at Southern end, facing West
  • Photo: BLS_162728
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    • Trench 1 feature at Southern end, facing North West
  • Photo: BLS_162729
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    • Trench 1 feature at Southern end, facing North West
  • Photo: BLS_162730
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    • Trench 1 feature at Southern end, facing West
  • Photo: BLS_162853
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    • Trench 1 Northern end sondage, facing West
  • Photo: BLS_162854
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    • Trench 1 Northern end sondage, facing East

Plan

  • Plan: BLS_4
    • Multi context plan of trench 1 north
    • Nigel Steel
    • 17-7-2016
  • Plan: BLS_5
    • Multi context plan trench 1 south
    • Nigel Steel
    • 17-7-2016
  • Plan: BLS_6
    • Multi context plan of Trench 1 north
    • Brendon Wilkins
    • 17-7-2016
  • Plan: BLS_9
    • Plan of extention in trench 1 south
    • Nigel Steel
    • 17-7-2016

Objects

  • Find: BLS_12
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    • Sub cuboid chert core
    • Flint
  • Find: BLS_13
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    • Quartzite pebble
    • Stone
  • Find: BLS_14
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    • Quartzite pebble
    • Stone
  • Find: BLS_15
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    • Rose quartzite
    • Stone
  • Find: BLS_16
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    • Quartzite pebble
    • Stone
  • Find: BLS_18
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    • Cremated human bone
    • Bone
  • Find: BLS_27
    • Chert
    • Stone
  • Find: BLS_28
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    • Cremated Bone
    • Bone
  • Find: BLS_29
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    • Neolithic to early Bronze Age flint tool or retouched debitage
    • Flint
  • Find: BLS_31
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    • Prehistoric ceramic vessel sherd (body)
    • Ceramic
  • Find: BLS_39
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    • Quartzite pebble
    • Stone
  • Find: BLS_42
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    • Jet or cannel coal Fragment with conchoidal fractures
    • Stone
  • Find: BLS_43
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    • Late Mesolithic to early Bronze Age flint debitage/waste flake, possibly retouched
    • Flint
  • Find: BLS_45
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    • Prehistoric SE Cumbs chert debitage
    • Stone
  • Find: BLS_48
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    • Prehistoric vessel sherd (Body)
    • Ceramic
  • Find: BLS_49
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    • Prehistoric dark grey chert core
    • Stone
  • Find: BLS_51
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    • Late Mesolithic to early Bronze Age flint debitage/waste flake, possibly retouched
    • Flint
  • Find: BLS_52
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    • Prehistoric pottery sherd (body) burnt
    • Ceramic
  • Find: BLS_58
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    • Jet or cannel coal
    • Stone
  • Find: BLS_63
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    • Cremated bone
    • Bone
  • Find: BLS_64
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    • Late Neolithic to Bronze Age flint debitage/waste flake, possibly retouched
    • Flint
  • Find: BLS_67
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    • Prehistoric limestone & chert nodule split into four
    • Stone
  • Find: BLS_68
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    • Probably a late Bronze Age grey flint scraper formed on late Neolithic to early Bronze Age debitage.
    • Flint
  • Find: BLS_103
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    • Late Neolithic to Bronze Age chert or flint, probably a damaged implement, possibly debitage.
    • Stone

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