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| Feature | Short Description | Context | Options |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUD_601 | Earthen mound |    | |
| SUD_602 | Circular Ditch [6010] | | |
| SUD_603 | Hardcore cap | | |
| SUD_604 | The earliest feature in the trench is an artificial layer construction (F601). It was composed of a light reddish-brown silty sand (ratch) visible in the section of a ditch (F602). This is likely to have been created by digging up the surrounding sub-soil (ratch) to create an artificial structure correlating with the construction of the mound structure observed in Trench 7 (F701) and is likely to be contemporaneous. On top of this layer was a hardcore cap (F603) constructed of a yellowish-brown sandy clay with medium sub-angular stones moderately sorted. This was then capped with a brown clay (F604) as an apparent waterproof layer. Together these layers formed an outer and inner bank. The banks were marked on the archae-topographical and magnetometry survey and must be a direct correlate (Fradley et al, 2014). | | |
| SUD_701 | Light reddish-brown silty sand with occasional medium and mod sub-angular stones poorly sorted | | |
| SUD_702 | Cut [7006] of drain that had a sharp break of slope at the top with steep sides and a slightly concave base measuring .80m wide and 3.00m long within the trench. It was filled by reddish-brown silty clay with frequent small and medium stones some sculptured (7007). | | |
| SUD_703 | Wall measuring 0.72m (N) - .79m (S) long and 3.00m wide on a north to south alignment. It was composed of frequent large and medium very angular stones (7011) filled with a light yellowish-brown sandy clay (7009). | | |
| SUD_704 | Cut of east to west robber trench [7014] which was linear in plan with a very gradual break of slope at the top with gently sloping sides and a concave base measuring 6.30m long to the limits of excavation and 3.00m wide. It was filled with very fine sieved mid grey silty sand (7003). | | |
| SUD_705 | Emma Dent’s 1877 excavation running north to south | | |
| SUD_706 | Hardcore cap | | |
| SUD_707 | Clay cap | | |
| SUD_708 | Probable floor | | |
| SUD_709 | Rubble layers | | |
| SUD_710 | Robbed out wall | | |
| SUD_711 | Garden bank | | |
| SUD_801 | N-S aligned potential Tudor garden boundary wall. Same wall as F703 | | |
| SUD_802 | Tree bowl | | |
| SUD_803 | Emma Dents trench | | |
| SUD_1001 | Victorian cast iron pipe | | |
| SUD_1201 | Rubble dump (12002) on top of the mound (F1202) - possibly stabilising action or possibly just a dump of stone. | | |
| SUD_1202 | The mound itself (F1202) - investigated with an L-shaped intervention that showed that it was built from a deposit of moderately compact clayey silt with frequent limestone pieces throughout, (12007), placed on top of the natural geology. | | |
| SUD_1203 | Cut [12005] and fill (12003) of tree bole | | |
| SUD_1204 | Cut [12006] and fill (12004) of tree bole | | |
| SUD_1205 | Possibly the remains of a garden path with some slippage of stones/ debris from an ephemeral structure on top of the mound overlying it (stone roof tiles and nails were found in the deposit) or alternatively an intentional stone dump at the bottom of the mound to support it and/or aid in drainage. | | |
| SUD_1301 | NE-SW, deep cut ditch/water channel with a later Victorian drainage ditch cut through it also aligned NE-SW. | |
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