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Short Description:
Slightly granular fill north end of fill in big ditch in trench 7
Issued to
Alison Jepson | 28/06/2018
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Interpretation

    • Fill in trench 7
      • Ruth McTighe
    • 30-6-2018

Sketch Photo

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Stratigraphic Matrix

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Description

  • Moderately compact
  • Mid yellowish-brown with yellow grains
  • Sandy silt
  • 10% angular and sub-angular poorly sorted
  • 40cm depth to top of water. Apparently goes deeper 38 width very approximate as wet soil mixed with 7005 111cm length
  • Base filling with water from strong oozing into trench within this fill
  • Trowelling shovelling. Bailing water with bucket (120 litres collected overnight). Sppngimg

Finds

FindtypeQuantity (No. fragments)Weight (g)Notes
Animal Bone 55 740 Mixed assemblage - Cattle, Red Deer (1), pig, sheep/goat, unclassified large and medium sized mammals. (Dr Hannah Russ, December 2018)
Animal Bone 4 34 teeth
Stone 1 31 quartz pebble - irregular shape
Stone 1 26 quartz pebble - oval shape and smooth

Feature

  • Feature: COL18_702
    • East-west aligned enclosure ditch

Site Photos

  • Photo: COL18_180742
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    • East-facing section of enclosure ditch F702, looking west, 2m and 1m scales

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