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Short Description:
Mottled silty clay fill of ditch in North of trench 10 excavated by Bill and Leah
Issued to
Bill Balding | 22/08/2019
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Interpretation

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Sketch Photo

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Stratigraphic Matrix

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Description

  • Moderately compacted
  • Mid yellowish brown
  • Silty clay
  • Frequent chalky inclusions
  • Thickness: 0.05m Height: 0.82m Width: 1.00m
  • This fill lost definition towards the east side of the feature
  • Trowel and mattock - very hot and sunny

Finds

FindtypeQuantity (No. fragments)Weight (g)Notes
Animal Bone 3 25 Includes part of a jaw with teeth. 2 pig, and 1 unidentified medium sized mammal. (Dr Hannah Russ, November 2019). (Year 2019)
Ceramic Building Material 5 8 Brick/Tile. (P Mills, February 2020). (Year 2019)
Other (add to description) 1 34 Fossil - Belemnite (Year 2019)
Pot 1 38 A body sherd of calcite-gritted fabric pot. Iron Age/Roman. (IM Rowlandson, February 2020). (Year 2019)
Pot 1 11 Roman. A grey ware lid or dish, 3rd century AD+. (IM Rowlandson, February 2020). (Year 2019)
Shell 1 1 Mussel (Dr Hannah Russ, November 2019).(Year 2019)

Feature

  • Feature: ELM_1006
    • Ditch in North of trench 10, excavated by Bill, Doug, Patrick, Lee, Steven and Chithra

Objects

  • Find: ELM_69
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    • Lattice work decorated grey ware
    • Ceramic

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