Digital Dig Team

Short Description:

Deposit - subsoil

Issued to

Ben Bazeley | 07/07/2013

- Interpretation Subsoil deposit - finds indicate a mix of late post-med farmy debris and monastery dissolution debris. Small flint cobbles with mortar attached suggests that this building was purposely dismantled in order to retrieve more useful elements (dressed blocks etc). Layer shallower in North, deeper as deposit runs down slope to South of trench.
- Interpreted by
  - Brendon Wilkins
- Interpreted on 7-7-2013
- Interpretation Light grey brown sandy silt, firm and compact, encompassing the entire trench. Subsoil deposit, with a mix of rubble, clinker, slag, modern glass, corroded ferrous objects (predominantly nails), slate, CBM ranging in date from early post- medieval to 18th to 19th Century, mortar and flint cobbles, porcelain, modern bottle tops, small oyster shells, buttons, small glass medicine bottle, and 22 small potsherds recovered from this context. A small early modern pendant was also recovered (small find 5).
- Interpreted by
  - Brendon Wilkins
- Interpreted on 22-2-2015

CompactionFirm, compact
ColourLight grey-brown
CompositionSandy silt
InclusionsRubble, clinker, slag, modern glass, corroded ferrous objects (predominantly nails), slate, CBM, mortar, flint cobbles, porcelain, modern bottle tops, small oyster shells, buttons, small glass medicine bottle, 22 small potsherds. A small early modern pendant was also recovered (LA13SF No. 5)
DimensionsWidth 5.00+ Length 2.70+ Depth 0.12- 0.23
Other CommentsIndicates a demolition layer, areas of in-situ burning perhaps for breaking down other buildings. Pottery: 3 pieces of Late Medieval Transitional Ware (P402) 14th - 16th Century, 2 pieces of Glazed Red Earthen Ware (P425) 16th - 19th Century, 1 piece of Manganese glazed Earthen Ware (P426) Late 17th - 18th Century and 14 pieces of Miscellaneous Modern 19th & 20th Century Wares (P1000)
Method/ConditionsExtremely warm and dry

Contexts at Leiston Abbey