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Short Description:
Graveyard soil
Issued to
Brendon Wilkins | 26/06/2016
761

Interpretation

    • Deposit – clay surface
      • Alia Reid
    • 11-6-2019
    • Graveyard soil
      • Indie Jago
    • 18-9-2020

Sketch Photo

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Description

  • Compact
  • Mid orangey brown
  • Sandy clay
  • 50% sub angular inclusions sandstone pieces, charcoal flecks and gravel
  • Length - 4.00m Width - 2.8m Depth - 0.22m at the N of trench (not bottomed at the S end (though it is thicker at S end (0.38m+ as of 2020)).
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  • Trowel dry

Finds

FindtypeQuantity (No. fragments)Weight (g)Notes
Other (add to description) 3 19 White quartz pebble (Year 2017)
Bone 92 43 (Year 2018)
Animal Bone 15 109 1 Horn (84g), 14 teeth (25g) (Year 2018)
Animal Bone 2 1 Animal teeth (Year 2018)
Ceramic Building Material 1 7 (Year 2018)
Clay Tobacco Pipe 1 3 (Year 2018)
Ferrous Object 2 10 Iron (Year 2018)
Human bone 32 95 Human teeth (Year 2018)
Human bone 676 3218 (Year 2018)
Other (add to description) 2 46 Fossil (Year 2018)
Other (add to description) 1 1 Burnt? (Year 2018)
Shell 22 38 (Year 2018)
Stone 1005 6500 Quartz pebbles (Year 2018)
Stone 3 2492 Worked (Year 2018)
Animal Bone 1 19 Tooth (Year 2019)
Animal Bone 314 592 (Year 2019)
Animal Bone 1 4 Tooth (Year 2019)
Animal Bone 4 5 2 fishbones (Year 2019)
Animal Bone 6 94 Teeth (Year 2019)
Bone 208 380 (Year 2019)
Bone 8 89 Includes 1 large fish vertebra (Year 2019)
Bone 1 3 Burnt (Year 2019)
Clay Tobacco Pipe 1 5 Stem (Year 2019)
Ferrous Object 2 15 1 possible rivet (5g) (Year 2019)
Human bone 14 124 (Year 2019)
Human bone 20 693 (Year 2019)
Human bone 25 1179 (Year 2019)
Human bone 30 990 (Year 2019)
Human bone 9 197 Includes skull fragments (Year 2019)
Human bone 63 373 (Year 2019)
Human bone 6 6 Teeth (Year 2019)
Human bone 32 364 (Year 2019)
Human bone 17 94 Includes 1 tooth (Year 2019)
Human bone 33 361 (Year 2019)
Human bone 85 292 Some infant / child (Year 2019)
Human bone 72 345 Some infant (Year 2019)
Human bone 25 242 (Year 2019)
Human bone 23 179 (Year 2019)
Human bone 21 174 (Year 2019)
Human bone 543 3114 (Year 2019)
Human bone 1 3 Tooth, molar with medium wear (Year 2019)
Human bone 9 128 Mandible and teeth (Year 2019)
Human bone 2 1 Earbones (Year 2019)
Human bone 17 84 (Year 2019)
Ferrous Object 2 24 (Year 2019)
Other (add to description) 1 54 Fossil (Year 2019)
Pot 1 7 Medieval, green glaze (Year 2019)
Shell 7 20 Cockle (Year 2019)
Shell 3 69 Flat shells (Year 2019)
Shell 4 11 Oyster (Year 2019)
Shell 2 5 Snail (Year 2019)
Shell 5 7 Winkle (Year 2019)
Slag 3 20 (Year 2019)
Stone 1 106 Possibly part of a name stone (Year 2019)
Stone 878 8937 Quartz pebbles Discarded (Year 2019)
Stone 1 12 Red, very smooth, very hard. (Year 2019)
Daub
Animal Bone 13 28 (Year 2022)
Bone 5 4 Mixed human/animal. (Year 2022)
Other (add to description) 6 9 Charcoal. (Year 2022)
Shell 85 200 Cockle (n11, 15g); Limpet (n1, 6g); Winkle (n73, 179g). (Year 2022)
Stone 15 110 Quartz pebbles. DISCARDED. (Year 2022)
Animal Bone 53 273 (Year 2021)
Bone 51 Mixed human/animal. (Year 2021)
Daub 14 81 (Year 2021)
Ferrous Object 1 9 Nail. (Year 2021)
Stone 45 522 Quartz pebbles. DISCARDED (Year 2021)
Stone 1 23 Green, quartz-like. (Year 2021)
Shell 75 63 (Year 2021)
Shell 82 12 Recovered from environmental sample 163. (Year 2021)
Shell 2 1 Retrieved from human remains assemblage. (Year 2021)

Feature

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Site Photos

  • Photo: LDF_190037
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    • Pre-ex photo of the trench 2E. Looking W. 2m scale.
  • Photo: LDF_192678
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    • SF164 in situ. W facing. 0.1m scale
  • Photo: LDF_193736
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    • Section of trench 2 E. Looking E. 0.4m scale.
  • Photo: LDF_193761
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    • Section of trench 2 E. Facing W. 0.4m scale.
  • Photo: LDF_215263
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    • E looking pre-ex photo of Tr2E (NW corner of the area cleaned). 1m scales.

Plan

  • Plan: LDF_10
    • Mid ex plan of Northern aspect of trench 2
    • Louise Harrison
    • 24-6-2016
  • Plan: LDF_14
    • Pre-ex plan (SE) trench 2. Sheet 2.
    • Indie Jago
    • 13-7-2017
  • Plan: LDF_29
    • Plan of tr 2 E (SW corner), with stone lined burial. 1:20. Sheet 32. Drawn by Jasmine and Isobel, Supervised by Indie
    • Jasmine Regan Feldman
    • 17-9-2021

Samples

  • Sample: LDF_160
    • Emma Brownley
    • 9-9-2021
  • Sample: LDF_163
    • Haritha Gowind
    • 9-9-2021
  • Sample: LDF_173
    • Harmony Rose Hill
    • 10-9-2021
  • Sample: LDF_182
    • Emily Woolhouse
    • 11-9-2021
  • Sample: LDF_183
    • Evie Carter
    • 12-9-2021
  • Sample: LDF_184
    • Aimee Parker
    • 12-9-2021
  • Sample: LDF_185
    • Aimee Parker
    • 12-9-2021

Objects

  • Find: LDF_118
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    • Femur from SK2067
    • Bone
  • Find: LDF_122
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    • Worked stone
    • Stone
  • Find: LDF_133
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    • Three fragments of an iron nail
    • Iron
  • Find: LDF_134
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    • Lead object
    • Lead
  • Find: LDF_138
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    • Iron nail, possibly a coffin nail
    • Iron
  • Find: LDF_140
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    • Undatable iron nail
    • Iron
  • Find: LDF_141
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    • Potential medieval name stone
    • Stone
  • Find: LDF_142
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    • Iron nail possibly a coffin handle
    • Iron
  • Find: LDF_143
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    • Fragment of iron nail associated with functional craftsmanship
    • Iron
  • Find: LDF_144
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    • Two copper alloy rings closely associated to a finger bone.
  • Find: LDF_147
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    • Iron nail head
    • Iron
  • Find: LDF_148
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    • Lead object possilby an offcut
    • Lead
  • Find: LDF_149
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    • Fragment of iron nail head
    • Iron
  • Find: LDF_156
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    • Late medieval early post medieval window glass
    • Glass
  • Find: LDF_157
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    • Iron nail head
    • Iron
  • Find: LDF_164
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    • The upper left corner of a square namestone with some worn decoration.
    • Stone
  • Find: LDF_166
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    • Potential square glass blue/green and white fragment
    • Glass
  • Find: LDF_173
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    • Lead object
    • Lead
  • Find: LDF_217
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    • Lead object
    • Lead
  • Find: LDF_227
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    • Coin
    • Silver
  • Find: LDF_230
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    • St Cuthberts bead
  • Find: LDF_233
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    • Lead object
    • Lead
  • Find: LDF_271
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    • Stone bead
    • Stone
  • Find: LDF_396
    • Fe Nail
  • Find: LDF_398
    • St Cuthbert's bead
  • Find: LDF_402
    • Iron nail
  • Find: LDF_403
    • Coin
  • Find: LDF_407
    • Anglo Saxon coin
  • Find: LDF_408
    • Iron nail
  • Find: LDF_414
    • Fe nail head
  • Find: LDF_415
    • Cu alloy "thing"
  • Find: LDF_418
    • Fe nail
  • Find: LDF_433
    • Possible whetstone
  • Find: LDF_434
    • St Cuthberts bead
  • Find: LDF_435
    • St Cuthberts bead
  • Find: LDF_437
    • Spindle whorl
  • Find: LDF_454
    • Iron nail
  • Find: LDF_459
    • Coin
  • Find: LDF_460
    • Fe nail
  • Find: LDF_461
    • Fe nail
  • Find: LDF_467
    • Fe object
  • Find: LDF_486
    • Cuthbert's bead from inside area of large stones in TR2E
  • Find: LDF_487
    • Cuthbert's bead from inside area of large stones in TR2E
  • Find: LDF_488
    • Half a holey stone
  • Find: LDF_490
    • Possible counter
  • Find: LDF_491
    • Cuthberts bead
  • Find: LDF_492
    • St Cuthberts bead
  • Find: LDF_493
    • St Cuthberts bead
  • Find: LDF_508
    • Cu Alloy belt buckle fragment
  • Find: LDF_509
    • Cu Alloy sheet
  • Find: LDF_513
    • Cuthberts bead

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