Basic Information
- Cow burial
Contexts
Narrative
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- 19th or early 20th century cow burial
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- Chris Casswell
- 7-7-2017
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- Ploughsoil was identified following the removal of topsoil, as was a large pit F1701, at the eastern end of the trench. The pit had been deliberately created following the formation of ploughsoil and contained the poorly preserved, fully articulated remains of a cow in its base.
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- Chris Casswell
- 1-5-2018
Dating Narrative
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- Artefact recovery was very limited but included a post medieval copper alloy die-cast stud SF14 found in the lower ploughsoil and fragments from a possible perforated strap end of similar date from the pit fill. These relatively late finds were recovered from deposits stratigraphically pre-dating the excavation of the pit and confirm that the cow burial was recent.
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- Chris Casswell
- 1-5-2018
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- The thickness of the ploughsoil in Trench 17 had accumulated to 0.75m suggesting that Field 2 had been cultivated well into the post-medieval period, although not to quite the same depth as in Field 6.
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- Chris Casswell
- 1-5-2018
Matrix
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