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Basic Information

  • Iron Age storage pit

Contexts

  • Context: WIT_6101
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    • Iron Age storage pit
    • Indie Jago
    • 6-1-2020
  • Context: WIT_6102
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    • Upper fill of Iron Age storage pit [6101]
    • Indie Jago
    • 6-1-2020
  • Context: WIT_6131
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    • Slump in Iron Age storage pit [6101]
    • Indie Jago
    • 6-1-2020

Narrative

    • An Iron Age storage pit, the cut was circular with steep to vertical sides and a flat base, it had a diameter of 1.62 meters and a depth of 0.40 meters. It contained two fills, a basal slumping deposit (6131), a moderately firm mid greyish brown clayey silt with chalk fragments and was 0.30m thick and in the base on the south eastern edge of the pit. The main fill of the pit (6102) was a moderately firm mottled mostly mid greyish brown clayey silt with lenses of mid yellowish brown silty clay deposit, this was throughout the pit and was 0.40m thick.
      • Nat Jackson
    • 3-4-2020

Dating Narrative

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