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Short Description:
Undisturbed rubble core of wall 2345
Issued to
Ben Swain | 23/09/2022

Interpretation

    • This material likely represents the undisturbed rubble core of wall 2345. Potentially one of the earliest walls revealed so far, it was considered important to keep this deposit separate from the more disturbed/spilt out rubble wall core (2394) to ensure samples were not contaminated with later material, though the two contexts are likely the same. Consisting of a fairly dense and compacted poorly sorted array of small to medium sized sandstone/limestone pieces, this rubble core lay between the large facing boulders of wall 2345 - a possible pre-monastic wall
      • Ben Swain
    • 15-10-2022

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Stratigraphic Matrix

Description

  • compacted
  • light greyish brown
  • clayey silt
  • very frequent small to medium sized sub angular to sub rounded sandstone/limestone pieces
  • L - 0.73+ W - 0.50 T -
  • This material represents the undisturbed rubble core of wall 2345 and was kept separate from the disturbed/spilt out rubble core (2394) to prevent sample contamination by later mixed material - though the two contexts are likely the same.
  • Hand Ex/dry

Finds

FindtypeQuantity (No. fragments)Weight (g)Notes
Animal Bone 37 66 (Year 2022)
Other (add to description) 1 1 Fossil. DISCARDED. (Year 2022)
Shell 33 36 (Year 2022)
Stone 9 48 Quartz pebbles. DISCARDED. (Year 2022)

Feature

  • Feature: LDF_723
    • Approx NNW-SSE and ENE-WSW aligned corner of a structure in TR2W

Samples

  • Sample: LDF_236
    • Ben Swain
    • 24-9-2022
  • Sample: LDF_241
    • Ben Swain
    • 25-9-2022

Objects

  • Find: LDF_331
    • Tiny piece of Cu alloy
    • Copper Alloy
  • Find: LDF_337
    • Samian pottery sherd
    • Ceramic

Record Details

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  • Ben Swain 23-9-2022
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