Contexts
Subgroup Narrative Text
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- Believed to represent an agriculture/cultivation layer of the late Medieval to early post Medieval period due to the stratigraphic position within the sequence. Through out the site, such deposits were similar in compaction, colour and composition. They were all also noted to have sporadically dispersed finds that were seen as heavily abraded by the excavators. Alternatively, these soils could represent soil brought in to the area from nearby in order reclaim land after activities such as quarrying, where the soil dug away in order to make access for new areas of brickearth and gravel extraction. Initial analysis of the soil structure indicates it did not accumulate naturally, and therefore may have been imported. Given the large area it covered but the relativley sterile inclusions, it is seen as likely that this was an agricultural soil brought in from elsewhere in a period of land re-use. Possibley used for pasture as a ploughed soil would be expected to be more mixed.
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- Chaz Morse
- 13-1-2011
Dating Narrative
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- No datable finds were recovered from (549). Given this relatively sterile nature, it is likely that these soils were brought in from a sterile site in the area. The stratigraphic position of this feature indicates that it is Post Medieval.
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- Chaz Morse
- 13-1-2011
Sub Group Matrix
Subgroup Plan
Group
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Strat. Group: PCO06_47
- Later of Post Medieval agricultural soils