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Short Description:
Sub-soil
Issued to
Ken Carruthers | 02/07/2017
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Interpretation

    • Plough marks visible in section; very mixed deposit contained modern material which was added to bulk finds.
      • Ken Carruthers
    • 2-7-2017

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Description

  • Friable
  • Medium greyish brown
  • Silty clay
  • 15% charcoal, pottery fragments, glass, ferrous objects (degraded), coin (halfpenny?)
  • L: 1.00m. W: 1.00m. D: 0.15m
  • Plough marks visible in section; very mixed deposit contained modern material which was added to bulk finds.
  • Trowel and spade in dry conditions

Finds

FindtypeQuantity (No. fragments)Weight (g)Notes
Clay Tobacco Pipe
Animal Bone
Ferrous Object
Glass
Pot
Other (add to description) 4 Charcoal "Not yet weighed"
Copper Alloy Object 1 6 Coin
Copper Alloy Object 1
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Ferrous Object 7 108 Donkey shoe
Flint 1 6
Glass 11 59
Pot 56 191
Clay Tobacco Pipe 10 Says "Bristol" on one stem ,1 bowl "Not yet weighed"
Ceramic Building Material 26 "Not yet weighed "
Other (add to description) 3 Mortar "Not yet weighed"
Bone 6 "Not yet weighed"

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