Contexts at Bright Water

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Short Description:
Subsoil
Issued to
Andrew Ballantyne | 19/06/2019
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Interpretation

    • Sub soil
      • Shaun Cameron
    • 20-6-2019

Sketch Photo

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Stratigraphic Matrix

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Description

  • Soft
  • Mid yellowish brown
  • Sandy silt
  • 5-10% sub angular to sub rounded stones poorly sorted
  • Length - 20.00m Width - 20.00m Thickness - 0.28m
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  • Trowelled in Sunny conditions

Finds

FindtypeQuantity (No. fragments)Weight (g)Notes
Ceramic Building Material 4 68 (Year 2019)
Clay Tobacco Pipe 1 2 Stem (Year 2019)
Ferrous Object 1 38 Heavily corroded broken iron nail (Year 2019)
Ferrous Object 1 2 Hollow tube (Year 2019)
Flint 7 14 2 worked. (Year 2019)
Human bone 1 2 Cremated. (Year 2019)
Other (add to description) 3 4 Charcoal. (Year 2019)
Pot 1 108 Oxidised ware. 1 bodysherd; mortarium with grits. Romano-British. (Year 2019)
Pot 3 20 Samian ware, brown-red slip. AD50-250. (Year 2019)
Pot 1 6 Nene Valley colour-coated ware, AD150-410. (Year 2019)
Pot 3 69 Amphora. Campanian Black-sand bodysherd, AD50-80 (?possibly 3rd century). (Year 2019)
Pot 1 128 Amphora. Dressel 20, triangular rim. (Year 2019)
Pot 6 293 Amphora, some of which Dressel 20. Baetican olive-oil amphora. AD50-250. (Year 2019)
Pot 6 30 Medieval cream and orange body and handle. Green glazed wares present. (Year 2019)
Pot 5 41 Greyware/BB type. Dish and jar rims, bodysherds. Romano-British. (Year 2019)
Pot 5 54 Black-burnished ware, body and base. AD120-250. (Year 2019)
Pot 20 245 Roman (mixed) (Year 2019)
Pot 1 27 Roman (base). (Year 2019)
Pot 68 535 Roman (2 amphora). (Year 2019)
Slag 1 27 (Year 2019)
Stone 3 11 Chalk (Year 2019)
Ferrous Object 2 1 Two fragments of unidentifiable iron (Year 2019)
Ferrous Object 2 36 Two possible iron nail shafts, heavily corroded (Year 2019)
Ferrous Object 1 9 Iron strip or wire, heavily corroded (Year 2019)

Feature

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Objects

  • Find: EPR_4
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    • 3 fragments of decorated samian ware
    • Ceramic

Record Details

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  • Andrew Ballantyne 19-6-2019
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