Short Description:
Fill of ditch [10023] below (10004)
Issued to
Joan Sutherland | 12/07/2014
Interpretation
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- Fill included masonry blocks, perhaps dumped in because they were unusable. Bones likely from animals dying on the bank or being deposited by predators or humans (butchering). Other objects may have been washed in by rain or inundation.
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- Anna Roik
- 17-7-2014
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- Fill of ditch [10023] below (10004). Filled with loose, soft mid-yellow greyish brown clayey sand with chalk, flint nodules, pebbles, shell, bone and charcoal inclusions of 15% ranging from angular to well-rounded.
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- Kezia Evans
- 5-12-2014
Sketch Photo
Description
- Loose, soft
- Mid-yellow greyish brown
- Clayey sand
- Chalk, flint nodules, pebbles, shells, bone, charcoal. 15%, all from angular to well-rounded.
- 1.00m width x 2.25m length x 0.55m depth
- Fill of [10023] - multiple finds Pottery: 1 piece of Late Hedingham type Ware (P327) - mid 14th-15th Century, 7 pieces of Late Medieval Transitional Ware LMTII (P402) - ca 1400 - 1600, 2 pieces of Raeren/Aachen Stoneware (P405) - Late 15th - mid 16th Century, 1 piece of Cologne/Westerwald Stoneware (P413) - 17th Century+, 3 pieces of Glazed Red Earthenware (P425) - 16th - 10th Century, 1 piece of Staffordshire White Salt Glazed Stoneware (P433) - 1720-1780
- Hand excavated (mattock and trowel) over several days under cloudy, partly cloudy and full sun.
Finds
| Findtype | Quantity (No. fragments) | Weight (g) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bone | 184 | 1873 | |
| Ceramic Building Material | 5700 | 2 Bags | |
| Clay Tobacco Pipe | 6 | 11 | |
| Flint | 4 | 15 | 3 flint flakes with heavy edge damage |
| Flint | 2 | 5 | <a href="leiston-abbey/ddt/rgf/LA_18">Small Find 18</a> |
| Metal | |||
| Pot | 11 | 68 | 2 Bags |
| Shell | 24 | 131 | 2 Bags |
| Worked bone | 1 | Small Find 36 | |
| Ceramic Building Material | 64 | Sample 28 | |
| Ceramic Building Material | 228 | Sample 36 | |
| Ceramic Building Material | 1 | 10 | Glazed Ceramic |
| Ceramic Building Material | 1 | 10 | Glazed Ceramic Small Finds 16 |
| Ceramic Building Material | 1 | 3 | Sample 28 / Small Find 25 |
| Ferrous Object | 25 | 336 | 2 Bags |
| Ferrous Object | 1 | 24 | Small Find 54 |
| Ferrous Object | 1 | 2 | Sample 28 / Small Find 26 |
| Stone | 2 | 25000 | Limestone |
| Pot | 1 | 38 | Small Find 27 |
| Pot | 1 | 5 | Small Find 52 |
| Pot | 1 | 10 | Sample 36 / Small Find 33 |
| Pot | 1 | 5 | Sample 28 / Small Find 24 |
| Bone | 20 | 10 | Sample 28 |
| Bone | 27 | Sample 36 | |
| Other (add to description) | 3 | Burned material | |
| Other (add to description) | 9 | 3 | Sample 36 |
| Shell | 20 | 3 | Sample 28 |
| Shell | 4 | Sample 36 | |
| Glass | 1 | Sample 36 | |
| Daub |
Feature
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Feature: LA_1005
- Drainage ditch
Site Photos
Objects
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Find: LA_18
- Two pieces worked flint.
- Flint
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Find: LA_21
- Pot poss med
- Ceramic
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Find: LA_22
- Glazed pot -med?
- Ceramic
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Find: LA_24
- Pottery
- Ceramic
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Find: LA_25
- Poss glazed tile
- Ceramic
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Find: LA_26
- Corroded iron nail
- Iron
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Find: LA_27
- Medieval pottery fragment
- Ceramic
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Find: LA_31
- Worked masonry large block
- Stone
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Find: LA_32
- Worked masonry block.
- Stone
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Find: LA_33
- Medieval Pottery
- Ceramic
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Find: LA_36
- Bone knife handle
- Bone
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Find: LA_52
- Blue glaze pot sherd
- Ceramic
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Find: LA_53
- Horseshoe
- Iron
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Find: LA_54
- Metal
- Iron
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Find: LA_55
- Metal
- Iron
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Find: LA_92
- Glass
- Glass
Record Details
- Joan Sutherland 12-7-2014
- 17-7-2014