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Short Description:
East -West aligned wall within Trench 1. E-W aligned wall of coursed square flat faced limestone and gritty coarse grey/cream lime mortar.
Issued to
Jacob Grout | 09/08/2019
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Interpretation

    • North facing wall of building additionally defined by walls (1003) and curtain wall (1008). A blocked doorway (1012) was observed towards the east end of the wall. The wall was probably originally thinner and rebuilt thicker at some point in time, as evidenced by the abutting relationship with wall (1003) and the cutting-back of the masonry at the north end of that wall. A single course of foundation stones projects from the base of the wall along its north face. The wall was built immediately on top of a buried clay soil horizon that lies over the limestone bedrock.
      • Chris Scott
    • 28-8-2019

Sketch Photo

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Stratigraphic Matrix

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Description

  • Limestone and lime mortar
  • Average Facing stone: L: 0.26m D: 0.17m W: 0.14m Core stone: L: 0.12m D: 0.04m W: 0.11m
  • Squared flat faced
  • Coursed
  • Linear
  • North/South
  • Gritty coarse grey/cream lime mortar
  • Length - 3.89m ELOE Width - 0.84m height - 0.48
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Finds

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Feature

  • Feature: MDC_14
    • Large east-west aligned building
  • Feature: MDC_16
    • E-W aligned wall <1002> associated construction cut [1025] and backfill (1016) - part of building F14

Site Photos

  • Photo: MDC_194290
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    • East-west aligned wall within trench 1. Scale 1 x 1 m
  • Photo: MDC_194299
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    • Threshold of doorway in east-west aligned wall within trench 1. Scale 1 x 1 m
  • Photo: MDC_194302
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    • Foundation of earlier building within Trench 1. Scale 1 x 1 m
  • Photo: MDC_194309
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    • Relationship of north-south aligned wall and east-west aligned wall within Trench 1. Scale 1 x 1 m
  • Photo: MDC_194313
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    • Interior of building formed by walls (1002) and (1003). Scale 2 x 1 m
  • Photo: MDC_194315
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    • Threshold of door within wall (1002), facing north. Scale 2 x 1 m
  • Photo: MDC_194316
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    • Area to the east of wall (1003), facing north. Scale 1 x 1 m

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