Basic Information
- Secondary fills pit
Sub Groups
Group Description
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- Underlying gravel spread (616) (Group 37) was context (785), the latest fill in pit cut [530], and which functioned as a capping layer over earlier secondary fills (529), an organic rich deposit, the smell of which may have necessitated a capping layer. Underlying (529) was (803), a seemingly organic rich deposit, that was sampled as <6>, to try and assess the composition and function of the feature. Contexts (785), (529), and (803) formed Group 33. Underlying (803), was (804), a relatively barren gravel fill that was seen as a slumped layer from the side of the pit cut.
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- Chaz Morse
- 19-10-2011
Dating Information
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- Dating - Two sherds were recovered from fill (529), and both were dated to 1550-1600AD. However, this quarry pit was heavily truncated by a number of Post Medieval features, and given that the latest and primary fills of this pit have been dated to the early Roman period, it is apparent that the pot from (529) is intrusive. No datable material was recovered from the fill (803). However given that the latest fill of the pit, (785), was dated to to 50-300 AD, and the pit cuts stratigraphic position, it is clearly early Roman. One Roman pot sherd was recovered from capping layer (785), which was dated to 50-300 AD.
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- Chaz Morse
- 19-10-2011