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Short Description:
Fill of Pit feature N of Tr 6
Issued to
Alex Whitlock | 23/09/2017
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Interpretation

    • Prehistoric pit with a lot of rooting activity, a lot of charcoal on the surface and prehistoric pot finds
      • Stuart Noon
    • 25-9-2017

Sketch Photo

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Stratigraphic Matrix

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Description

  • Soft in the East Firm in the West
  • Dark brownish yellow in the East Mid reddish brown in the West Dark blackish brown patches throughout
  • Silty clay in East Sandy clay in West
  • Large sub rounded, 20cm few, 15% sub angular, 5-10cm, charcoal even distribution <1% and cremated bone <1%
  • Width: 0.55m Length: 0.70m Depth: 0.16m
  • Multiple small dumps of material, mixed discrete deposits 80% was dug in quarter section
  • Overcast and dry, hand excavated, trowel

Finds

FindtypeQuantity (No. fragments)Weight (g)Notes
Other (add to description) 2 19 Charcoal in >2 fragments
Stone 6 9 Worked stone
Pot 17 20 Pre-historic
Human bone 22 3 Cremated bone

Feature

  • Feature: BLS_603
    • Pit with cremated material

Plan

  • Plan: BLS_13
    • Post ex plan of trench 6
    • Ed Caswell
    • 26-9-2017
  • Plan: BLS_14
    • Plan of BLS_603
    • Stephen Humphries
    • 26-9-2017

Samples

  • Sample: BLS_22
    • Maiya Pina-Dacier
    • 23-9-2017
  • Sample: BLS_31
    • Ed Caswell
    • 3-5-2018

Objects

  • Find: BLS_180
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    • Prehistoric pot sherd
    • Ceramic

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