Contexts at Elmswell Farm

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Short Description:
Topsoil
Issued to
Jason Mulroy | 20/08/2019
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Interpretation

    • Plough soil
      • Richard Barnsley
    • 20-8-2019

Sketch Photo

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Stratigraphic Matrix

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Description

  • Soft
  • Light brown
  • Organic sandy silt
  • Occasional small angular limestone fragments
  • 10.00 m long 1.60 m wide 0.35 m thick
  • Fine rootlets
  • Machine excavated

Finds

FindtypeQuantity (No. fragments)Weight (g)Notes
Ceramic Building Material 1 14 Tessera (P Mills, February 2020). (Year 2019)
Ceramic Building Material 43 767 Mixed assemblage. Brick/tile (33 pcs = 151g), Brick (2pcs = 129g), Flat tile (4pcs = 305g), Imbrex (3pcs = 120g), Tegula (1pcs = 62g). (P Mills, February 2020). (Year 2019)
Ferrous Object 6 19 (Year 2019)
Lead Object 1 3 (Year 2019)
Other (add to description) 5 76 Chalk - sample of floor surface. Tesserae 9L=28mm,W=26mm). Some square and a few very irregular. (Year 2019)
Other (add to description) 2 1 Charcoal (Year 2019)
Other (add to description) 2 5 Mixed modern - glass &amp; plastic (Year 2019)
Pot 2 35 A single basal sherd from a Crambeck grey ware bowl or dish (34g). A sherd of modern white glazed pottery (1g). (IM Rowlandson, February 2020). (Year 2019)
Shell 1 1 Edible Oyster (Dr Hannah Russ, November 2019) (Year 2019)

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Site Photos

  • Photo: ELM_190002
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    • Pre ex, trench 7, looking N
  • Photo: ELM_190006
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    • Pre ex, trench 7, looking S

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