- Ramp and retaining wall
Photos
- Trench 3 measured 7.5m x 3m and was aligned north to south over the location of the ramp and retaining wall identified from historic mapping. The earliest feature identified was the east to west aligned retaining wall (3007) across the centre of the trench. It comprised ashlar stone blocks bonded with a rough limestone mortar and had been heavily disturded by a later landscaping event. Although only one stone thick (against the ramp), the position and state of the tumble (3008) to the north suggests that originally the wall would have been at least two stones thick. An exploritory sondage was made into the tumble to establish the state of preservation of the in-situ remains of the wall, and found it to be at least four courses in height. The ramp (3006) was found on its southern side of the wall, having been placed against the original upstanding wall, and consisted of mostly thick light grey clay with occasional large angular slate and mudstone inlusions. On top of the tumble of the wall were two landscaping layers (3003) and (3004) that contained modern finds, the final layer comprised hard clay and stone likely to represent a consolidation layer prior to the establishment of a subsoil (3002) and topsoil (3001).
3-D Models
Plan
-
Plan: JNP_3
- Post ex plan of Trench 3
- Jennifer Daglish
- 20-4-2018
Section
-
Section: JNP_5
- E facing section of trench 3
- Chris Casswell
- 20-4-2018
Features
- No records attached.
Contexts
-
Context: JNP_3001
- Topsoil
- Simon Fielder
- 12-4-2018
-
Context: JNP_3002
- Subsoil
- Laura Caygill-Lowery
- 13-4-2018
-
Context: JNP_3003
- Landscaping layer
- Chris Casswell
- 14-4-2018
-
Context: JNP_3004
- Landscaping deposit
- Laura Caygill-Lowery
- 15-4-2018
-
Context: JNP_3005
- Landscaping deposit below (3004)
- Laura Caygill-Lowery
- 20-4-2018
-
Context: JNP_3006
- Ramp - made ground
- Brandon Smith-Wood
- 20-4-2018
-
Context: JNP_3007
- Retaining wall
- Laura Caygill-Lowery
- 20-4-2018
-
Context: JNP_3008
- Wall tumble
- Laura Caygill-Lowery
- 20-4-2018
- Mark Gascoigne 12-4-2018