Basic Information
- Pit
Contexts
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Context: WIT_5055
- Cut of sub circular pit located to the east of the trench, adjacent to pit [5053]
- Nat Jackson
- 7-11-2019
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Context: WIT_5056
- Fill of sub circular pit [5055] located to the east of the trench, adjacent to pit [5053]
- Nat Jackson
- 7-11-2019
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Context: WIT_5136
- Infant burial in pit [5055]
- Nat Jackson
- 14-11-2019
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Context: WIT_5138
- Primary fill in base of pit [5055] contained an infant burial (5136)
- Nat Jackson
- 14-11-2019
Narrative
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- An Iron Age storage pit containing two fills. The pit had a diameter of 1.28m and a depth of 0.50m. The basal fill (5138) was a compact dark grey brown silty clay with marly chalk inclusions, small to medium stones and charcoal flecks. Within this fill a neonatal skeleton was discovered, which upon excavation was discovered to be three individuals. The skeleton appeared to have been placed in the foetal position tucked in the side of the pit on its eastern edge at the base, it was facing east. The secondary fill was a moderate to loose grey brown silty clay with moderate small to medium stones, occasional charcoal flecks and burnt stones. The pit in itself is a fairly standard Iron Age storage pit, however the presence of the neonatal skeleton is more unusual. There was one other pit with a neonate placed in the base discovered in these excavations, F#439 in trench 4, and in previous excavations another was found.
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- Nat Jackson
- 31-3-2020
Dating Narrative
- No Interpretations