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Short Description:
Plough furrow
Issued to
Michael Eden | 18/07/2017
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Interpretation

    • Furrow
      • Chris Casswell
    • 28-7-2017

Sketch Photo

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Description

  • Compact
  • Grey brown
  • Silt
  • Rubble 20% Bone large chunks <1%
  • Length - 9.00 m Width - 4.40 m Depth - 0.42 m
  • Potential copper stain
  • Troweling in clear very dry conditions

Finds

FindtypeQuantity (No. fragments)Weight (g)Notes
Animal Bone
Human bone
Copper Alloy Object
Ferrous Object
Human bone 4 22 1 Jaw bone, 3 teeth (Year 2017)
Bone 11 44 Animal teeth (Year 2017)
Other (add to description) 5 145 Fossil (Year 2017)
Bone 136 543 Human/Animal (Year 2017)
Other (add to description) 201 1957 White quartz pebbles (Year 2017)
Stone 2 234 Worked stone (Year 2017)
Ceramic Building Material 4 10 (Year 2017)
Clay Tobacco Pipe 3 12 (Year 2017)
Ferrous Object 2 10 (Year 2017)
Pot 11 99 (Year 2017)
Shell 13 33 (Year 2017)
Bone 15 23 13 Not defined (17g), 2 teeth (6g) (Year 2018)
Ceramic Building Material 1 6 trace of glaze? (Year 2018). NOT CBM. Reduced greenware - Northumberland type. (1300>1600). (Andrew Sage, 2019)
Stone 27 262 Quartz pebbles (Year 2018)
Flint 1 6 (Year 2019)
Stone 6 49 Quartz pebbles Discarded (Year 2019)

Feature

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Site Photos

  • Photo: LDF_193747
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    • Skeletons in furrow (2020). Looking N. 2m vertical scale, 0.4m horizontal scale
  • Photo: LDF_193748
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    • Skeletons in furrow (2020). Looking N. 2m vertical scale, 0.4m horizontal scale
  • Photo: LDF_216547
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    • E looking photo of W facing section of Tr2W
  • Photo: LDF_216549
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    • E looking photo of W facing section of Tr2W

Plan

  • Plan: LDF_15
    • Pre-ex plan NW corner of Trench 2. Sheet 3.
    • Tim Hill
    • 15-7-2017
  • Plan: LDF_16
    • Pre-ex plan of NE corner of Trench 2. Sheet 5.
    • Anna Roik
    • 15-7-2017
  • Plan: LDF_17
    • Pre-ex plan of southern part of West side of Trench 2. Sheet 3.
    • Martin Braddock
    • 16-7-2017
  • Plan: LDF_19
    • Post-ex plan West Trench 2. Sheet 8.
    • Megan Lillington
    • 25-7-2017

Samples

  • Sample: LDF_121
    • David Wallace
    • 11-9-2020
  • Sample: LDF_122
    • David Wallace
    • 11-9-2020
  • Sample: LDF_123
    • David Wallace
    • 11-9-2020

Objects

  • Find: LDF_36
    • Medieval hand made iron nail, maybe related to the cemetery
    • Iron
  • Find: LDF_37
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    • Potential worked badly fragmented piece of bone with scored or incised lines.
    • Bone
  • Find: LDF_40
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    • Unidentifed, possibly medieval, iron ferrous object which might be a fragmented nail.
    • Iron
  • Find: LDF_41
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    • Fragment of thin stained medieval window glass - most likely to derive from the medieval priory
    • Glass
  • Find: LDF_42
    • Handmade iron ferrous nail
    • Iron
  • Find: LDF_43
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    • Unidentifiable iron ferrous object, possibly medieval.
    • Iron
  • Find: LDF_54
    • Black unidentifiable shiny object maybe production waste
  • Find: LDF_123
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    • Worked flint
    • Flint
  • Find: LDF_146
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    • Iron nail head
    • Iron
  • Find: LDF_167
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    • Coppor alloy Anglo-Saxon coin called a Northumbrian Styca dated between 837-849/50. The faces show Archbishop Wigmund and has equal armed crosses with crosses with a border of raised dots on both sides.
    • Copper Alloy
  • Find: LDF_169
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    • Anglo-Saxon coin
    • Copper Alloy

Record Details

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  • Michael Eden 18-7-2017
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