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Short Description:
North-South aligned wall within trench 1. N-S aligned wall of coursed square flat faced limestone and gritty coarse grey/cream lime mortar.
Issued to
Aimee Parker | 10/08/2019
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Interpretation

    • A north-south aligned wall forming the eastern wall of a building. This wall abuts the southern curtain wall (1008) and the east-west aligned wall (1002). This wall was constructed on top of a buried clay soil horizon (1018) that immediately overlies the limestone bedrock (1015). Three courses of masonry remained extant. The wall had been cut-back at its northern end to accommodate a rebuild of the east-west aligned wall (1002) which resulted in the appearance of wall (1003) abutting that of (1002) and it was therefore initially interpreted as being later. However, both walls are likely contemporary.
      • Chris Scott
    • 28-8-2019

Sketch Photo

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Stratigraphic Matrix

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Description

  • Limestone Lime mortar
  • Average Facing stones L: 0.38m D: 0.14m W: 0.16m Core stones L:0.16m D: 0.09m W: 0.07m
  • Squared flat faced
  • Coursed
  • Linear
  • East/West
  • Gritty coarse grey/cream lime mortar
  • L: 3.60m ELOL W:0.57m
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Finds

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Feature

  • Feature: MDC_14
    • Large east-west aligned building
  • Feature: MDC_17
    • N-S aligned wall <1003> abutting F15 and F16

Site Photos

  • Photo: MDC_194302
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    • Foundation of earlier building within Trench 1. Scale 1 x 1 m
  • Photo: MDC_194305
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    • North-south aligned wall within Trench 1
  • Photo: MDC_194306
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    • Relationship of north-south aligned wall within Trench 1 to bedrock and buried subsoil horizon. 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_194311
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    • Southern east-west aligned curtain 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_194316
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    • Area to the east of wall (1003), facing north. Scale 1 x 1 m

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