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Zone 4 Looking East Zone 4 West End - Nearly finished Removing concrete by machine Zone 4 East End Modern Truncations in Zone 4 The Site Looking West Across Zone 4 Offset Planning Greg Planning a multi-sheet plan Looking East across Zone 4 Pointing Figure View from the trench Looking West Across Zone 4 Three mysterious features Break Time in Zone 4 Post Medieval feature The site looking East Zone 4 Looking North East Zone 4 West End Zone 4 West End Digging up the ramp in the Zone 4 area Moving the Ramp Zone 4 West End The beginning of Zone 4 Abbey The site The Site looking West Zone 3b looking West Zone 3b looking South West Zone 3b East End Zone 3b East End Eastern End of Zone 3b Ring Ditch [1770] Zone 3b west end Zone 3b East End Two Burials Zone 3b East End Lifting finds Zone 3b Zone 3b west end Zone 3b Zone 3b looking North West Looking North West over Zone 3b Treasure in 1801 Adrian digging a pair of truncated legs 2 Bodies Mysterious masonry Will and Jon working on 1805 and 1820 Greg excavating burial 1812 Burial 1812 Looking back to Zone 3a Zone 3b West End Zone 3b East End Piling Rig Zone 3b west end Zone 3b The junction of zones 3a and 3b looking North West Zone 3b Only 1750 remains Finishing up the burial group at the beginning of Zone 3b Coffin Stain in cut [1750] Burial Group Burial Group Burial Group Zone 3b stripped and hand cleaned Zone 3b stripped and hand cleaned Zone 3b looking South East Zone 3b Zone 3b looking South East Zone 3b looking South West Zone 3b looking East Zone 3b Zone 3b Zone 3b The Big Quarry Pit Looking East The site looking East Worked Marble Small arms shot Zone 3 Bagging Finds Three Figures Roman Face Adrian digging a skelly Menacing skies over Zone 3 Zone 3a looking South towards the ramp The site looking East The site looking East Zone 3 looking South East Zone 3a looking south towards the ramp Zone 3b Zone 3 looking South West Recording Sheets Paperwork Workflow Guy Liz Ruth Jonnos Will Johanna Greg Ashley Ceri David Andy Fergal Lorna Gary David H Anies Chaz Adrian Burial (2120) Context (2104) Context (2034) Burial (2106) Ruth & Will sampling deposit (2137) Tomas & Anies at work on their chalk-lined burial A bright and fresh as a Spring morning Greg doing his paperwork like a good boy Anies excavating skeleton (2029) The chalk-lined burial Adrian, Jon and Fergal working at the far East end of Zone 4 Burial (2129) The grave goods of burial (2129) Burial (2129) The Prescot Street site looking East East end of Zone 4 East along Prescot Street towards the BT Radianz building The construction is well under way in what was our Zone 1 Tiny machines and giant props The North West corner of the old Zone 1 - it's VERY deep! Across Zone 4 facing West Zone 4, looking South West Looking directly West across site Planning Zone 4 Across Zone 4 looking North East Context (2044) Context (1930) Context [1967] Context [1971] Context [1972] Context [1956] Context [1954] Context [1953] Context [1555] - a mysterious brick-lined feature Detail of [1952] a mysterious brick-lined feature Context (1308) Context [1973] Taking samples Context (2000) Context [1444] Urn in [2008] Context [2008] possibly a ditch with an urn Context [2013] - a pit Zone 4 facing North Context (2000) another mysterious feature Context (2029) - a truncated inhumation Context [2008] Across the construction site looking North West View across site looking North West Gherkin, piling rig and archaeologist. The far North East end of site Zone 4, facing Prescot Street Zone 4 Far East end of site Far East end of site in Zone 4 of the excavation Gary's goat Gary's lead goat Context (1930) A Georgian wishing well (1920) Remains of heavily truncated skeleton (1918) Anies defining the cut of tomb foundation (1839) Anies & Tomasz and tomb burial (1839) Post-medieval drainage feature in Zone 4 Across site looking north west North East corner of Zone 4 Pitland in Zone 4 Looking South West across Zone 4 South east end of site in Zone 4 Zone 4 South East (1901) Burial (1890) (1898) Roman quarry pit (1894) Roman quarry pit (1873) Roman quarry pit (1887) Roman quarry pit Roman coffin stain with skeleton (1891) Tomasz in grave cut (1910) Roman grave (1859) Grave cut [1910] - the deepest one on site so far (1863) Roman quarry pit (1909) Oval-shaped Roman quarry pit (1907) The basement of one of the houses on Prescot Street [1910] Grave cut Liz's current project - a skull Anies and some well-placed advertising Adrian, Ashley & Tomasz discuss the basement area in Zone 4 Fergal taking samples from soak-away (1555) Across Zone 4 looking south west Liz cleaning a skull North East corner of Zone 4 [1915] Roman pit Cist Cremation (1805) Double Cremation Opposite view of Double Cremation (1812) GeoPhoto Burial (1812) Rich Cremation (1801) Detail of Cremation (1801) Detail of Cremation 1801 Detail of offerings associated with 1801 Three flagons laid outide wooden container (1801) GeoPhoto Burial 1810 (legs only) Burial (1810) Early stages of (1801) Pit [1873] Cremations 1805 and 1820 with lids on Will and Jon tackle a double cremation Double Cremation Aerial View Aerial View of Zone 3 eastern end East End of the Site The Whole Site Zone 3 Working Shot Zone 3 Working Shot Chalk Burial 1834 GeoPhoto Stone Lined Tomb 1839 Stone Lined Tomb (1839) Digger Bliss (1801) after partial lifting of the grave goods (1801) after partial lifting of the grave goods Looking back over zone 2 Western end of Zone 3 looking north Remnants of the Ring Ditch [1770] Zone 3 border with Zone 4 Fergal and Ruth Double Cremation 1805/1820 looking south (1831) after excavation (1831) GeoPhoto (1831) GeoPhoto (1831) Upturned skull Burial (1831) Wide shallow pit [1829] (1824) GeoPhoto Burial (1824) Liz looking so happy to be lifting the feet of (1812) Detail of Burial (1812) Greg excavating burial 1812 Ruth lifting cremation (1801) Clearing a large pit Cut of Cremation Burial [1856] Cremation 1851 Grave Cut [1835] Cut [1801] of Cremation Burial Tile Cist 1805 After Opening (GeoPhoto) Grave Cut [1832] Shallow Pit [1844] Burial 1813 - Grave Cut Context (1796) Zone 3b on a miserable drizzly morning Across site looking North West Zone 3b looking North View across Zone 3b looking South-East Ashley & Gary recording View East across Zone 3b View across site looking East Will completing his paperwork Ruth cleaning an area over 575/105 Ruth is shy Greg cleaning pits Site looking north west Anies & Chaz and a late medieval ditch Liz excavating a possible grave Liz excavating a possible grave, looking south east across site Adrian and Ionut in a pit (302) (L - R) Ceri, Gary & Ashley digging a pit with disturbed cremations Tomasz excavating grave (1795) Ceri in his pit [1783] Ceri in pit [1783] that contains a disturbed cremation Site shot looking south east Ashley & Fergal in their ring ditch [1770] Jon with a glass jar Chaz in ditch [1350] Liz has hoeing skills Zone 3b Liz cleaning Zone 3b Jon & Adrian and pit [302] Adrian in pit [302] Fergal and Ashley loading up the samples for Steve David entering data onto ARK David Context (1762) - a pit Liz Gary & Fergal Anies Ceri Will & Liz Ruth & Will Anies and Ashley Gary, Fergal and a soak away Ceri Anies and Ashley Looking south-west across site Linear feature or beam slot??? [1759] Pit [1732] Gary at work Pit cut [1755] Inhumation (1751) Grave cut [1750] Context (1747) Grave cut [1734] Cremation urn (1745) Grave cut [1727] Adrian excavating grave cut [1727] Liz planning grave cut [1720] Grave cut [1720] Fergal posing with his shovel Adrian and Liz Large pit Large pit Greg Skeleton (1723) Skull of (1723) Skull & vertebrae of (1723) Skeleton (1723) Skeleton (1723) Skeleton (1723) excavated by Ruth Flexed prone skeleton (1723) Grave cut [1699] Skeleton (1733), excavated by Will & Tomasz Skeleton (1733) with votive Samian vase (1736) at feet Grave cut [1711] of Ruth's skeleton (1723) Disarticulated skeleton (1728), excavated by Adrian Skeleton (1728) (1719) geophoto Skeleton (1719) Adrian's grave cut (1727) Will & Tomasz excavating (1733) Adrian excavating skeleton (1728) Liz recording grave cut (1720) Ruth, Tomasz and Will recording Context (1720) Anies & Adrian looking for a grave cut Tomasz excavating a post-Medieval pit Ceri and possible inhumation Ashley & Ceri and site looking East Liz working on an inhumation (1719) Soak-away (1713) Fergal and (1698) Fergal doesn't want to leave Ruth's skeleton Across site looking North East Working shot looking North Ruth, Will and Fergal at work A somewhat busy corner of site Ruth, Will and Fergal Ruth working on the ribs Ruth excavating skeleton Votive (?) vessel (1707) (1666) Skeleton (1708) Skeleton (1708) Ruth and skeleton Dave and skeleton (1708) Liz and skeleton Ceri and skeleton Gary (1701) Hmmm... Tomasz, our human tractor Ceri, our new recruit (L - R) David, Skeleton (1698) Fergal and Anies Anies interviews Fergal for a future feature Ashley, glad to be back at work Across site, looking north east Ruth doing a spot of trowelling Fergal's skeleton (1698) DSC01333.JPG DSC01333.JPG DSC01333.JPG DSC01333.JPG (1698) geophoto Jon in another soak-away Ceri & Adrian removing the horn core from [1587] Skull of (1698) Skeleton (1698) Fergal excavating the pelvic area of (1698) Close up of (1698) Ceri and Adrian excavating the rest of the horn core pit [1587] Anies going down Anies explaining planning at Prescot to Tomasz Adrian and Ceri in the horn core pit cut, with horn core samples in foreground Peter from the Mudlarks metal detecting the spoil Ruth & Will packing up skeleton (1665) Skeleton (1698) Fergal excavating skeleton (1698) (1665) geophoto DSC01264.JPG DSC01264.JPG Skeleton (1665) Skeleton (1665) from above Soak-away (1683) Burial (1436) The gun flint from soak-away (1676) The gun flint from soak-away (1676) Fergal excavating a grave Tomasz digging grave cut of 1668, with Dave's cremation pit (1675) in foreground Gary's post-medieval soak-away 1676 where the gun flint was found Detail of horn-core pit Jon at the top of a soak-away Jon & Ruth Gary is actually kneeling at the base of his soak-away Liz and Adrian recording the horn core pit Detail of horn core pit Horn-core pit (1578) from above Horn core pit (1578) Cremation (1675) David Ross sampling a pit 1663 My dearest Ashley and level Tomasz and 1668 Tomasz Gary starting to dig a soakaway 1676 Will cleaning the top of a skeleton 1665 Fergal has not quite got to the bottom of it yet This is where we keep Liz at night Fergal has skills Will recording Working shot looking South Liz spots something that Fergal may have missed Tomasz working on a skeleton - no context number yet Tomasz, our newest member of staff Fergal & Liz working on Jon's horncore pit Looking East along hoarding Lorna, practically public archaeology in action The information boards The information boards The information boards The information boards The information boards Context 1640 - a pit Context 1623 - a pit again Context 1625 - yet another pit Context 1615 - a pit... Context 1636 - go on, guess... Context 1632 - another pit Top Gun It's all action down on site. Man action. Adrian and Friend Stormy Skies Over Zone 3 Zone 3 Final Days 140820081113 Zone 3