- Frostrams Cottages
Photos
- Trench 4 measured 3m by 3m and targeted the buildings northeast of the Site labelled as Frostrams Cottages within historic maps. This trench aimed to confirm if any below ground archaeology remained in this area. The earliest features identified in this trench were 3 foundation walls orientated NW-SE F401 and NE-SW F402, F403 marking out the edge of an outside yard and potentially the Western edge of the cottage’s interior. Following the erection of these walls the yard appears to have been levelled and cobbled (4006, 4015) as made evident by a layer of ruble found within the South Western corner of the Trench. At a later point this yard was cut into [4017] in order to place the foundation of a much smaller wall F404 approximately 0.30m and 2.05m wide, thick in effect creating a sub space within the yard’s eastern area approximately 0.60m wide and at least 2.00m long. A vertically standing drainage pipe F405 was found to be placed within the Southern end of this bounded space making it likely that this was an outside privy associated with Frostrams cottages. Evidence of the cottages destruction was found surviving and placed above these features as a layer red brick dust (4003). A final feature F406 was identified in the Trench’s South-Eastern corner made up of a pit filled with dark dense soil. This has been provisionally interpreted as a set pot although requires further investigation to confirm/refute this assertion. The results from Trench 4 have highlighted that archaeological remains of Frostram’s cottages are still intact and represent its construction, abandonment and destruction. The layers above this material were notable in their toughness and suggest that this area had been subject to landscaping following the cottages destruction.
3-D Models
Plan
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Plan: JNP_1
- Plan of trench 4
- Jennifer Daglish
- 20-4-2018
Section
Features
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Feature: JNP_401
- Foundation Wall for Frostrams Cottages
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Feature: JNP_402
- Short section of foundation Wall (west) for Frostrams Cottages
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Feature: JNP_403
- Short section of foundation Wall (east) for Frostrams Cottages
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Feature: JNP_403
- Short section of foundation Wall (east) for Frostrams Cottages
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Feature: JNP_404
- Thin section of Wall for Frostrams Cottages
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Feature: JNP_405
- drainage pipe
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Feature: JNP_406
- Pit that maybe a set pot
Contexts
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Context: JNP_4001
- Topsoil
- Laura Caygill-Lowery
- 12-4-2018
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Context: JNP_4002
- Subsoil
- Paul Robson
- 12-4-2018
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Context: JNP_4003
- Backfill/Brick dust
- John Reynolds
- 15-4-2018
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Context: JNP_4004
- Long wall
- Marty Strutt
- 19-4-2018
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Context: JNP_4005
- Cut of long part of wall
- Marty Strutt
- 19-4-2018
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Context: JNP_4006
- Cobbled surface
- Paul Robson
- 19-4-2018
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Context: JNP_4007
- Thinner wall
- Robin Stewart
- 19-4-2018
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Context: JNP_4008
- Structure of possible set-pot
- Laura Caygill-Lowery
- 19-4-2018
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Context: JNP_4009
- Fill of structure of possible set-pot
- Lynn Carter
- 19-4-2018
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Context: JNP_4010
- Possible surface
- Sarah Carter
- 19-4-2018
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Context: JNP_4011
- Layer of organic material
- Robin Stewart
- 19-4-2018
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Context: JNP_4012
- Cut of drainage pipe
- John Reynolds
- 19-4-2018
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Context: JNP_4013
- Fill of cut of drainage pipe
- Johanna Ungemach
- 19-4-2018
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Context: JNP_4014
- Shorter Wall West
- Rachel Holm
- 19-4-2018
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Context: JNP_4015
- Cobbled layer outside the wall
- Emma Stephenson
- 19-4-2018
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Context: JNP_4016
- Short section of foundation wall (east)
- Johanna Ungemach
- 19-4-2018
- Andrea Dunsmoir 12-4-2018