- 10m x 4m trench targeting area with possible stone structures
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- Trench 9 was a 10 x 4 m trench running East to West in the Southern area of the site. The trench was selected through a public poll with DigVentures global community. This trench was described and selected on the basis of the presence of significant geophysical anomalies identified through a magnetometer survey conducted in 2013. This identified several potential features including a possible rectangular structure surrounded by an exterior ditch, a further potential field boundary and a final unidentified magnetic anomaly. Topsoil from the trench was removed via JCB, all subsequent feature were hand cleaned and excavated using mattocks and trowels. Within this trench two areas were selected for further excavation to reveal the feature in section. One area of 5m by 2m in the Trench’s south west corner and a 1m by 1m pit cutting one of the field drains to resolve its stratigraphic sequence. Three features were identified within the Trench none of which were identified within the geophysical survey. Two were post-medieval field drains, one running east west, F902, the other running north south, F901. These were made of single cuts filled with loosely packed stone to facilitate the draining of the fields they were placed in. The final feature was the tumble from a wall running North-East to South-West. Much of the Trench was covered by a deep layer of colluvium with a good amount of disarticulated animal bone of multiple species that has likely been washed down slope from another feature outside the area of excavation. This appears to lay upon another feature or layer of packed stone (9008) found below the field drain the extent of which was not excavated. No further feature were identified and none could be correlated to the features identified within the geophysical survey.
3-D Models
Plan
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Plan: COL18_6
- Post ex plan of trench 9
- Lindsey Williams
- 30-6-2018
Section
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Section: COL18_6
- Post ex south facing section of trench 9
- Ed Caswell
- 30-6-2018
Contexts
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Context: COL18_9001
- Topsoil
- DigVentures
- 21-6-2018
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Context: COL18_9002
- Drain fill
- Alex Ward
- 28-6-2018
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Context: COL18_9003
- Layer of collovium spread across trench 9 below topsoil
- Lindsey Williams
- 29-6-2018
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Context: COL18_9004
- Drain fill running east west across trench 9
- Chris Short
- 29-6-2018
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Context: COL18_9005
- Tumbled Wall running ne to sw
- Johan du Preez
- 30-6-2018
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Context: COL18_9006
- Cut of drain fill running n to s (9002)
- Lindsey Williams
- 30-6-2018
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Context: COL18_9007
- Cut of drain fill running e to w (9004)
- Paul Williams
- 30-6-2018
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Context: COL18_9008
- Stoney layer below drain fill 9002
- Ed Caswell
- 30-6-2018
- Wendy Lloyd 22-6-2018