Contexts at Elmswell Farm

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Short Description:
Topsoil
Issued to
Caroline McNiven | 21/08/2019
584

Interpretation

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Sketch Photo

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Stratigraphic Matrix

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Description

  • Moderate
  • Mid orangey brown
  • Clayey silt
  • Frequent small to medium angular and subangular chalk. Very rare small charcoal flecks.
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  • Hand / sunny

Finds

FindtypeQuantity (No. fragments)Weight (g)Notes
Animal Bone 4 11 Teeth. Equus (1), Sheep or goat (3). (Dr Hannah Russ, November 2019). (Year 2019)
Ceramic Building Material 5 37 Tesserae. (P Mills, February 2020). (Year 2019)
Ceramic Building Material 13 265 Mixed assemblage. Brick/tile (9pcs=95g), Flat tile (2pcs=72g), Tegula (1pc=94g0, Tessera (1pc=4g). (P Mills, February 2020). (Year 2019)
Copper Alloy Object 1 3 (Year 2019)
Ferrous Object 2 14 (Year 2019)
Flint 1 3 Chunk (2.6g) (Dr JT Hogue, February 2020). (Year 2019)
Other (add to description) 20 150 Chalk - sample of floor surface . Tessera (L=22mm, W=22mm). (P Mills, February 2020). (Year 2019)
Other (add to description) 3 48 Mixed modern - piece of drain (1), button (1), piece of plastic (1) (Year 2019)
Pot 3 12 Medieval & post Medieval. (IM Rowlandson, February 2020). (Year 2019)
Pot 16 100 Roman grey and oxidised wares. (IM Rowlandson, February 2020). (Year 2019)
Shell 2 1 Unidentified (Dr Hannah Russ, November 2019). (Year 2019)
Stone 1 11 Worked stone (Year 2019)
Stone 29 186 Flint - naturally broken / unworked. (Discarded). (Dr JT Hogue, February 2020) (Year 2019)

Feature

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Site Photos

  • Photo: ELM_190573
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    • post ex trench 9. Looking south. 1m scales.
  • Photo: ELM_190576
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    • post ex trench 9. Looking north. 1m scales.

Objects

  • Find: ELM_60
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    • Roman copper alloy coin with a suggested date of 300 to 410AD
    • Copper Alloy

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