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Short Description:
Cut of stone filled drain
Issued to
Shereen Atkinson | 26/05/2019
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Interpretation

    • Cut for the stone filled drain (7007)
      • Cheryl Muriel
    • 12-6-2019
    • The stratigraphical relationship of the drain is not clear. It appears to be under the top soil possibly cut through the hardcore cap (F706), (7005). This drain did cut through a layer of reddish-brown silty sand with occasional medium and mod sub-angular stones poorly sorted exactly matching the sub-soil (7002). It is also possible that the layers of a clay cap (F707), (7004) and the hardcore cap (F706), (7005) originally abutted the drain and that it is contemporary. Considering that it was filled with sculptured stone fragments probably relating to stones taken from Winchcombe Abbey in January 1547 by Thomas Seymour indicated by the 1420 makers mark on one of the stones it may well be contemporaneous with the construction of the Tudor Garden platform in the 1570’s but this relationship is not clear at this time.
      • Stuart Noon
    • 27-6-2019

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Stratigraphic Matrix

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Description

  • Cut linear
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  • Length 3.00m Width 0.60m Depth 0.40m
  • sharp break of slope top
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  • steep sides
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  • a slightly concave base
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  • Hand ex

Finds

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Feature

  • Feature: 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).
  • Feature: SUD_707
    • Clay cap

Plan

  • Plan: sud_7
    • Plan of trench 7 and strat not to scale
    • Stuart Noon
    • 24-7-2019

Record Details

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  • Shereen Atkinson 26-5-2019
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