Contexts at Coldingham Priory

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Short Description:
Topsoil
Issued to
DigVentures | 21/06/2018
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Interpretation

    • Topsoil
      • Indie Jago
    • 1-7-2018

Sketch Photo

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Stratigraphic Matrix

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Description

  • Medium
  • Dark greyish-brown
  • Silt
  • Occasional small round stones
  • Length 10 beyond loe Width 4 beyond Depth 20 cm
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  • JCB and then cleaned with towels and mattocks in drizzly overcast conditions

Finds

FindtypeQuantity (No. fragments)Weight (g)Notes
Animal Bone 27 772 General comment for animal bone recovered from this context. Sample only examined. Mixed assemblage - Equid, cattle, sheep/goat, large ungulates and large unclassified mammals. (Dr Hannah Russ, December 2018)
Animal Bone 31 481 teeth
Animal Bone 1 5 burnt
Animal Bone 1 55 jaw bone with teeth
Animal Bone 18 680 teeth
Animal Bone 18 505
Clay Tobacco Pipe 1 1 stem
Copper Alloy Object 4 32
Ferrous Object 10 269 1 hook, some nails and 1 plate
Flint 1 6
Glass 1 5
Lead Object 11 48
Other (add to description) 1 8 Coal, brown in colour, 41mm long
Pot 4 31 glazed pottery
Stone 1 107 stone - 44mm long, circumference 130mm; cylindrical shape
Stone 1 39 Pebble - oval, smooth and grey, 55mm long
Pot 2 8
Stone 4 101 Quartz pebbles #1=38g (orange/yellow); #2 =39g; #3 =15g; #4 =10g (grey)
Other (add to description) 3 13 Mortar - whitish in colour. #1 =40mm; #2 =18mm; #3 =13mm
Animal Bone 113 1110 not washed
Copper Alloy Object 1 3 Small modern copper cylindrical object with 2 retaining pin holes at one end and wheel like structure at the other. (8mm long)

Feature

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Site Photos

  • Photo: COL18_180462
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    • Pre-excavation photo of Trench 9, looking west, 2m scales
  • Photo: COL18_180465
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    • Pre-excavation photo of Trench 9, looking east, 2m scales
  • Photo: COL18_180704
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    • Post-excavation photo of Trench 9, looking west, 2m scales
  • Photo: COL18_180705
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    • Post-excavation photo of (9005), looking south, 2m scale
  • Photo: COL18_180708
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    • Post-excavation photo of stone drain F901, looking southeast, 2m scale
  • Photo: COL18_180710
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    • Post-excavation photo of stone drain F901, looking northwest, 2m scale
  • Photo: COL18_180714
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    • South-facing section through drain F901, looking north, 1m scale

Objects

  • Find: COL18_23
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    • Pottery
    • Ceramic

Record Details

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