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Short Description:
Sub-soil
Issued to
Kayleigh Bates | 08/07/2016
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Interpretation

    • Sub-soil
      • Kayleigh Bates
    • 8-7-2016

Sketch Photo

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Description

  • Firm
  • Mid brown
  • Sandy clay
  • Sub rounded and sub angular stones Coal and charcoal Sandstone
  • Length 20m Width 2.0m Depth 0.08m-0.18m
  • Some metal detecting tags in-situ East end trench 2 down slope
  • Troweling Wet and windy

Finds

FindtypeQuantity (No. fragments)Weight (g)Notes
Pot 3 2 Post-medieval
Pot 2 6 Vessel sherds, possibly Bronze Age
Clay Tobacco Pipe 5 6 West
Pot 1 25 West, possibly Roman
Pot 31 102 West, glazed various
Clay Tobacco Pipe 1 1 East
Pot 8 90 East, post-medieval
Pot 7 19 South (?), glazed various
Other (add to description) 1 4 West, cartridge case
Stone 1 4 East, chert debitage
Stone 1 9 East, orange stone possibly Scottish chert
Flint 1 54 East, heat affected
Stone 1 0.5 East, quartzite
Stone 1 130 East, possible hammer stone
Stone 10 50 West, chert
Stone 8 28 West, quartzite
Flint 1 1 West, flint debitage
Stone 1 3 West, vitrified stone possibly jet
Flint 1 20 West
Flint 5 3 South, flint debitage
Stone 2 1 South, quartzite
Flint 1 0.5 Heat affected flint/chert
Stone 1 4 Chert core, South East Cumbrian chert
Stone 4 13 Quartzite

Feature

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Site Photos

  • Photo: BLS_162636
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    • Feature in Eastern arm of Trench 2, facing North
  • Photo: BLS_162637
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    • Feature in Eastern arm of Trench 2, facing North
  • Photo: BLS_162640
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    • Trench 2 feature at Eastern end, facing South
  • Photo: BLS_162641
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    • Trench 2 feature at Eastern end, facing East
  • Photo: BLS_162642
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    • Trench 2 feature at Eastern end, facing North
  • Photo: BLS_162649
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    • Trench 2 feature at Western end (Joan's Stones), facing South
  • Photo: BLS_162857
    • Trench 2 Eastern end sondage, facing North
  • Photo: BLS_162858
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    • Trench 2 Eastern end feature, facing North
  • Photo: BLS_162859
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    • Trench 2 Eastern end feature, facing North West
  • Photo: BLS_162860
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    • Trench 2 Eastern end feature, facing North East

Plan

  • Plan: BLS_1
    • Multi-context plan of trench 2 centre
    • Brendon Wilkins
    • 30-6-2016
  • Plan: BLS_3
    • Multi context plan of trench 2 east
    • Nigel Steel
    • 17-7-2016

Samples

  • Sample: BLS_7
    • Alex Whitlock
    • 17-7-2016

Objects

  • Find: BLS_19
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    • Quartz chip
    • Stone
  • Find: BLS_20
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    • Rose quartzite
    • Stone
  • Find: BLS_21
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    • Jet or cannel coal
    • Stone
  • Find: BLS_22
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    • Mesolithic to early Neolithic chert microlith
    • Stone
  • Find: BLS_30
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    • Flint blade fragment with retouch, probably Neolithic
    • Flint
  • Find: BLS_32
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    • Prehistoric chert debitage with possible retouch
    • Flint
  • Find: BLS_37
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    • Prehistoric flint or chert debitage/waste flake
    • Stone
  • Find: BLS_44
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    • Prehistoric SE Cumbs chert (or possibly flint) tool
    • Stone
  • Find: BLS_46
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    • Bronze Age chert retouched debitage, possibly to form a scraper.
    • Flint
  • Find: BLS_47
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    • Glacially polished quartz
    • Stone
  • Find: BLS_50
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    • Prehistoric chert debitage with some retouch
    • Stone
  • Find: BLS_59
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    • Prehistoric black chert debitage
    • Stone
  • Find: BLS_62
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    • Neolithic chert implement
    • Stone
  • Find: BLS_65
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    • Late Neolithic to Bronze Age flint multi-tool
    • Flint
  • Find: BLS_66
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    • Probably a Neolithic to Bronze Age flint, probably, end scraper on debitage
    • Flint
  • Find: BLS_69
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    • Small piece of worked chert
    • Stone
  • Find: BLS_70
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    • Flint debitage, possibly late Mesolithic to early Neolithic
    • Flint
  • Find: BLS_71
    • Probably a Mesolithic to early Neolithic retouched chert microlith or debitage / waste flake
    • Stone
  • Find: BLS_72
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    • Heat effected flint debitage or microlith fragment, probably Mesolithic to early Neolithic
    • Flint
  • Find: BLS_73
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    • Flint debitage or microlith fragment, probably Mesolithic to early Neolithic
    • Flint
  • Find: BLS_74
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    • 0.5mm quartz chip
    • Stone
  • Find: BLS_75
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    • Late Neolithic to early Bronze Age broken flint implement, probably a blade or Scraper.
    • Flint
  • Find: BLS_82
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    • Probably late Neolithic to Bronze Age flint debitage
    • Flint
  • Find: BLS_87
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    • Late Mesolithic to early Neolithic microlithic flint debitage or tool fragment
    • Flint
  • Find: BLS_88
    • Debitage, small worked flint
    • Flint
  • Find: BLS_89
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    • Neolithic to Early Bronze Age flint multi purpose tool.
    • Flint

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