Area 11AE highlighted in red

011AE00001    Machine Stripping


 
Area Details
Length 100 m Width 75 m Depth 5
Area  5203.5 sq. m Volume
Material Culture Number of Objects 2 Number of Animal Bones 1
Environmental 

Stratigraphic Matrix Diagram

Discussion

This was the initial machine stripping of the ploughsoil in Area 11AE. There proved to be only a thin layer of soil across most of the area, which had an underlying geology of frost-shattered chalk. Only in the south-eastern part of the area was there a layer of hillwash, the easternmost part of which was subsequently excavated in 1991 (Area 11BE) and 1992 (Area 11CE). Before the initial cleaning of the remaining ploughsoil (spit 011AE00002) took place, an attempt to clean the surface by using a tractor-driven brushing machine proved fruitless, and the remaining cleaning was carried out by hand. Very few finds were lifted under this number, the majority being lifted under cleaning spit 011AE00002, although a bird bone, a brooch and a silver sceatta were lifted for safekeeping.

Context Details

KEY_ID TYPE SHAPE L B D PROFILE NOTES
011AE00001 SPIT RECTANGULAR 10000 7500 5 FLAT INITIAL MACHINE CLEARANCE FOR SITE 11 AE.

Objects

KEY_ID OB PERIOD MATERIAL TYPE SUB_TYPE CLASS No
011AE00001 AA MIDDLE SAXON SILVER COIN SCEATTA PORCUPINE 1
011AE00001 AB ROMAN COPPER ALLOY BROOCH PENANNULAR FOWLER TYPE A3 1

Animal Bone

KEY_ID SPECIES ELEMENT QUANT CHEW BURN BUTCH FBRK
011AE00001 BIRD Phalanx 1 1 0 0 0 0