- Horse gin
Photos
- Trench 2 was a 3m by 3m trench. It was excavated by machine to the top of the subsoil layer due to the topsoil being too shallow to be cut into turves. After this point the trench was hand excavated using trowels and mattocks. The Trench was placed to target earthwork features identified as a horse gin during an earlier desktop and earthwork survey. The earliest layer encountered in the trench was a layer of compact soil (2008) upon which a rubble layer (2006) or large boulders suggested as being off cuts from Workington’s nearby quarry were loosely placed. This rubble layer appears to have been levelled by the pouring of a layer (2005) of slag and soil above it. Feature F201 was then cut into this layer, this feature is potentially a circular pit that was cut into a rubble layer (2006) although only one quadrant was made visible within the trench. The pit was filled (2007) with rubble and c. 30 bricks. The rubble and the pit were at a later point, probably during landscaping of the pit during the 1970s, covered with a dark earth layer (2004) and pebbles (2003). After this point loose soil from the earthworks of the gin appears to have slumped into the hollow leaving a layer of soil (2002) over much of the trench.
3-D Models
Plan
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Plan: JNP_2
- Post ex plan of trench 2
- Laura Caygill-Lowery
- 20-4-2018
Section
Features
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Feature: JNP_201
- Circular pit
Contexts
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Context: JNP_2001
- Topsoil
- Mark Gascoigne
- 12-4-2018
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Context: JNP_2002
- Layer spill from gin earthwork
- Charles Wood
- 12-4-2018
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Context: JNP_2003
- gravelly layer
- Ed Casswell
- 12-4-2018
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Context: JNP_2004
- Black soil
- Mark Gascoigne
- 12-4-2018
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Context: JNP_2005
- Red clinker layer below (2004)
- Mark Gascoigne
- 13-4-2018
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Context: JNP_2006
- Large boulder rubble layer in arc, following line of 'horse gin' eaarthwork
- Charles Wood
- 13-4-2018
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Context: JNP_2007
- Mixed brown silt and compact mortar quarter in NW corner of Trench 2
- Mark Gascoigne
- 13-4-2018
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Context: JNP_2008
- Compact surface beneath rocky fill
- Mark Gascoigne
- 20-4-2018
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Context: JNP_2009
- Cut of circular pit
- Ed Casswell
- 20-4-2018
- Charles Wood 12-4-2018