011AB00279

Ditch

All Contexts and Associated Finds Totals

CUT  FILL VOLUME OBJECTS AN BONE DENSITY
SPIT 011AB00227 2 2
011AB00279 011AB00232   0  1  
011AB00236 0 3
011AB00242 3 2

Discussion

A short segment of ditch excavated in trench 011AB10009. The feature was originally seen as a rather amorphous shape, complicated by the modern pipe trench which cut through at this point, thus the first context was treated as a spit. The removal of this spit reveealed both the ditch and an adjacent pit (011AB00291). Only five objects and eight animal bones were recovered from this feature, none of which allow a firm date for the feature to be established. The angle of the ditch implies that (like 011AB00277, 011AB00288 and 011AB00272) it was acting as a form of water control for the stream channel, possibly controlling the flow into a mill pond which is believed to exist just to the north.

Context Details

011AB00227 and 011AB00279 Notes

KEY_ID TYPE SHAPE L B D PROFILE NOTES
011AB00227 SPIT COMPLEX
211
226
10
 FLAT 1ST SPIT OF MATERIAL REMOVED FROM AMORPHOUS UNDEFINED SHAPE. FINDS INCLUDE FRAGMENTED LIMPET SHELL.
011AB00232 DITCH FILL LINEAR
196
131
15
 FLAT 2ND ARBITRARY REMOVAL OF MATERIAL FROM UNDEFINED SHAPE. 232 IS ABOVE 236 AND 258. THERE WAS CHARCOAL FLECKING. GRAVEL INCLUSION 15% 1-3CM DIAMETER.
011AB00236 DITCH FILL LINEAR
111
121
15
 FLAT 3RD REMOVAL OF MATERIAL FROM NOW DEFINED DITCH. NO FINDS. CHALKY GRAVEL INCLUSIONS 5% 1-1.5CM DIAMETER.
011AB00242 DITCH FILL LINEAR
128
113
23
 FLAT 4TH ARBITRARY REMOVAL OF DITCH FILL DEFINED THE BASE OF THE DITCH. DITCH NOW CLEARLY DEFINED IN THE TRENCH SECTION. 
011AB00279 DITCH CUT LINEAR
128
93
63
 FLAT BASED V DITCH CUT INTO SANDY GRAVEL

Objects By Context

KEY_ID OB PERIOD MATERIAL TYPE SUB_TYPE CLASS No
011AB00227 AA Unassigned SHELL SHELL   LIMPET
1
011AB00227 AB Unassigned STONE STONE    
20
KEY_ID OB PERIOD MATERIAL TYPE SUB_TYPE CLASS No
011AB00242 AA PREHISTORIC FLINT FLAKE    
1
011AB00242 AB Unassigned POTTERY SHERD    
1
011AB00242 AC ROMAN POTTERY SHERD   ROMAN
1

Animal Bone by Context

KEY_ID SPECIES ELEMENT QUANT CHEW BURN BUTCH FBRK
011AB00227 Domestic fowl Tarsom/t 1 0 0 0 1
011AB00227 Sheep/Goat Humerus br 1 1 0 0 0
011AB00232 Cattle Phalanx 3 1 0 0 0 0
011AB00236 Cattle Patella 1 0 0 0 0
011AB00236 Sheep/Goat Mandible 1 0 0 0 0
011AB00236 Sheep/Goat Scapula 1 0 0 1 0
011AB00242 Cattle Femur D 1 0 0 0 1
011AB00242 Cattle M/C P 1 0 0 0 0