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Short Description:
Stone layer down west side of trench 2 east
Issued to
Louise Harrison | 23/06/2016
760

Interpretation

    • Stone layer under subsoil
      • David Bowles
    • 6-9-2018
    • Equal to 2009.
      • Indie Jago
    • 19-9-2020

Sketch Photo

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Description

  • Hard
  • Mid greyish brown
  • Sandy silt
  • 70% sub angular inclusions medium to large sized sandstone pieces, gravel.
  • Length - 3.30m Width - 4.00m Depth - unknown: not fully excavated
  • Same as 2009. See sheet 2009.
  • Trowel/wet

Finds

FindtypeQuantity (No. fragments)Weight (g)Notes
Glass 1 7 (Year 2017)
Bone 26 22 human
Animal Bone 1 4
Ferrous Object 1 7 (Year 2017)
Clay Tobacco Pipe 2 9 (Year 2017)
Other (add to description) 745 7337 White quartz pebbles (Year 2017)
Human bone 20 63 Teeth (Year 2017)
Bone 1 7 Rodent skull (Year 2017)
Other (add to description) 3 13 Industrial residue? (Year 2017)
Bone 26 22
Bone 1399 7344 Human/Animal (Year 2017)
Other (add to description) 6 91 Fossil, 1 fossilised wood (Year 2017)
Other (add to description) 1 2 Daub (Year 2017)
Bone 37 146 Animal Teeth (Year 2017)
Lead Object 2 19 (Year 2017)
Shell 26 12 (Year 2017)
Slag 1 10 (Year 2017)
Animal Bone 13 95 Teeth (Year 2018)
Ferrous Object 1 3 (Year 2018)
Glass 1 1 (Year 2018)
Human bone 8 4 Teeth (Year 2018)
Human bone 317 384 Fragments (Year 2018)
Human bone 9 1 Neonate (Year 2018)
Shell 5 1 Fragments (Year 2018)
Shell 15 19 5 Oyster (11g), 1 Limpet (1g), 3 Cockle (2g), 6 Snail (5g) (Year 2018)
Stone 222 2058 Quartz pebbles Discarded (Year 2018)
Stone 3 676 Worked? (Year 2018)
Stone 27 137 Quartz pebbles (Year 2018)
Animal Bone 204 964 Animal bone (Year 2018)
Animal Bone 224 1403 (Year 2018)
Clay Tobacco Pipe 1 9 (Year 2018)
Human bone 19 327 Bone (Year 2018)
Animal Bone 15 107 Includes 1 tooth (Year 2019)
Clay Tobacco Pipe 1 2 Stem (Year 2019)
Human bone 13 169 (Year 2019)
Stone 3 3416 Worked? (Year 2019)
Stone 161 2073 Quartz pebbles. Discarded (Year 2019)
Stone 7 78 Quartz pebbles. Discarded (Year 2019)
Animal Bone 222 Not yet weighed. (Year 2022)
Animal Bone 413 1819 (Year 2022)
Animal Bone 9 5 Fish bone. (Year 2022)
Animal Bone 7 37 Teeth. (Year 2022)
Bone 72 464 Mixed human/animal. (Year 2022)
Clay Tobacco Pipe 2 2 1 not weighed. (Year 2022)
Ferrous Object 6 42 (Year 2022)
Human bone 90 217 (Year 2022)
Other (add to description) 7 9 Fossils; 5 crinoids (2g); 1 not weighed. (Year 2022)
Stone 295 3121 Quartz pebbles. DISCARDED. (Year 2022)
Stone 1 Reddish stone, not weighed. (Year 2022)
Shell
  • 70
  • 70
Not weighed. Cockle (n8); Limpet (n13); Oyster (n4); Winkle (n45). (Year 2022)
Shell 167 445 Winkle (n82, 187g), Oyster (n18, 63g) (Year 2022)

Feature

  • No records attached.

Plan

  • Plan: LDF_5
    • Pre ex plan trench 2
    • Elizabeth Tutty
    • 23-6-2016
  • Plan: LDF_13
    • Pre-ex plan (NE) of trench 2. Sheet 1.
    • Anna Roik
    • 13-7-2017
  • Plan: LDF_20
    • Post ex plan of trench 2 west. Sheet 7.
    • Megan Lillington
    • 27-7-2017
  • Plan: LDF_51
    • Post ex plan of Tr2E. 1:50 Drawn by James Marple, Karen Moritz and Yasi Zhou. Supervised by Harriet and Nat
    • James Marple
    • 2-10-2022

Samples

  • Sample: LDF_26
    • Rita Baker
    • 19-7-2017
  • Sample: LDF_261
    • Harriet Tatton
    • 1-10-2022

Objects

  • Find: LDF_45
    • Handmade iron nail possibly related to the cemetery
    • Iron
  • Find: LDF_47
    • Handmade ferrous nail possibly related to the cemetery
    • Iron
  • Find: LDF_48
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    • Iron hook unlikely to be related to fishing
    • Iron
  • Find: LDF_50
    • Unidentifiable ferrous object, possibly a fragmented nail related to the cemtery
    • Iron
  • Find: LDF_51
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    • Medieval green-glazed pottery
    • Ceramic
  • Find: LDF_86
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    • Iron nail
    • Iron
  • Find: LDF_103
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    • Top of the head stone, carved in an Irish tradition
    • Stone
  • Find: LDF_108
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    • 8th century namestone with writing
    • Stone
  • Find: LDF_109
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    • Iron nail fragment
    • Iron
  • Find: LDF_110
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    • Stone rubber
    • Stone
  • Find: LDF_111
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    • Honing stone
    • Stone
  • Find: LDF_113
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    • Fragment of Anglo Saxon sculpture
    • Stone
  • Find: LDF_116
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    • Fragment of iron nail head
    • Iron
  • Find: LDF_137
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    • Fragment of medieval namestone
    • Stone
  • Find: LDF_310
    • Fe object
    • Iron
  • Find: LDF_312
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    • Namestone
    • Stone
  • Find: LDF_321
    • Nail from shrine burial
    • Iron
  • Find: LDF_322
    • VOID
  • Find: LDF_323
    • Large st Cuthbert's bead
    • Stone
  • Find: LDF_324
    • Possible early mediaeval copper alloy coin
    • Copper Alloy
  • Find: LDF_325
    • Iron nail
    • Iron
  • Find: LDF_333
    • Folded piece of lead from rubble outside large stones in trench 2 east
    • Lead
  • Find: LDF_382
    • Piece of lead sheet
    • Lead
  • Find: LDF_387
    • Bead
  • Find: LDF_389
    • Cu alloy coin
  • Find: LDF_390
    • Twisted Pb fragment
  • Find: LDF_392
    • Iron nail in south third of trench 2 east, next to burial
  • Find: LDF_424
    • Fe obj from LDF22

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