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Short Description:
Secondary fill of pit 4189
Issued to
Rachel Riley | 21/08/2021
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Interpretation

    • Secondary silting fill of pit
      • Ben Swain
    • 21-8-2021
    • High organic content suggests deliberate anthropogenic deposition
      • Raphael Kahlenberg
    • 22-8-2021

Sketch Photo

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Stratigraphic Matrix

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Description

  • Moderately loose/friable
  • Dark greyish brown
  • Clayey silt
  • Occasional charcoal and gravel pieces.
  • Length - 1.40m Width -0.40m Thickness - 0.13m
  • Two horizontally aligned stones (5/7 cm length) lie on upper boundary, suggesting low disturbance before deposition of ELM_4222.
  • Hand Ex/dry, contained in micromorphology sample ELM_025

Finds

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Feature

  • Feature: ELM_468
    • Pit in eastern end of trench 4 (Geoarch trench) protruding from southern LOE

Objects

  • Find: ELM_161
    • Two fragments of copper alloy bangle

Record Details

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  • Rachel Riley 21-8-2021
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