Basic Information
- Roman enclosure or boundary ditch
Contexts
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Context: WIT_5005
- V- shaped ditch running E-W and S of trench
- Indie Jago
- 6-11-2019
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Context: WIT_5018
- Ditch in centre of trench running N-S
- Indie Jago
- 6-11-2019
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Context: WIT_5021
- Fill of ditch [5005]
- Indie Jago
- 6-11-2019
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Context: WIT_5034
- Fill of ditch [5018]
- Indie Jago
- 6-11-2019
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Context: WIT_5111
- Bottom deposit under 5021 in ditch 5005
- David Wallace
- 7-11-2019
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Context: WIT_5139
- Cut of roman ditch, slot dug in northern end of trench
- Nat Jackson
- 15-11-2019
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Context: WIT_5140
- Fill of roman ditch [5139] slot dug in northern end of trench
- Nat Jackson
- 15-11-2019
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Context: WIT_5151
- Cut of Roman ditch, (northern slot through ring ditch)
- Ben Swain
- 20-11-2019
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Context: WIT_5152
- Fill of Roman ditch, (northern slot through ring ditch)
- Ben Swain
- 20-11-2019
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Context: WIT_5154
- Primary fill of Roman ditch, (northern slot through ring ditch)
- Ben Swain
- 20-11-2019
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Context: WIT_5199
- Cut of roman ditch
- Indie Jago
- 28-11-2019
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Context: WIT_5200
- Fill of roman ditch 5199
- Indie Jago
- 28-11-2019
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Context: WIT_5215
- Basal fill of roman ditch 5199
- Indie Jago
- 29-11-2019
Narrative
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- A moderate sized Roman enclosure or boundary ditch running for 48 meters in trenches 5 and 6, at the southern end of the trench there was 13 meters running east to west, then it turns roughly ninety degrees to run for 35 meters south to north and off into the northern limit of excavation. It is possibly the same ditch as F#414 in trench 4 but due to there being a 34 meter gap between trenches this cannot be confirmed. Within trench 5 there were 5 interventions into the ditch, all of which determined relationships with other features, showing that it truncated everything and was therefor one of the latest features in the trench. The features that it truncates were a post hole F#503 at the south end of the trench, the ring ditch F#512, a large Iron Age storage pit F#534, and three post holes F#528, 529 and 559 by the northern limit. The ditch had two fills at the southern end of the trench, a basal fill (5111) which was a firm light grey brown silty clay, and then a secondary fill (5021), a soft mid grey brown silty clay. At this point the ditch was 0.70m deep and 2.15m wide. The ditch becomes shallower as it moves to running north and by the final slot was 0.52m deep and 1.06m wide.
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- Nat Jackson
- 31-3-2020
Dating Narrative
- No Interpretations