012AC07211

Enclosure Ditch


 
Ditch Details
Length  1770 Maximum Width  45 Maximum Depth  33 Profile  U-shaped
Material Culture Number of Objects  1 Number of Animal Bones  5
Environmental   

Phasing

The only diagnostic find was a single later Roman pot sherd. However, the stratigraphy and the fact that the enclosure apparently swerves to avoid the group of two Grubenhauser to the west indicate an Anglian date.

Stratigraphic Matrix Diagram

        012AC09502   012AC00033   012AC00035  
                   
    012AC00011    012AC00040    012AC00069       
      =             
    012AC00032    012AC00041    012AC00070       
              012AC07211     
                   
     012AC00038   012AC00168    012AC00036       
                   

Discussion

A curvilinear ditch aligned east/west and forming the latest phase of an enclosure to the north. Further ditches (012AC00033, 012AC00035 and 012AC00041) on a similar alignment lie to the north 012AC09502, which form different phases of the same enclosure. The western limit of the ditch has been truncated by Grubenhaus 012AC09506 and the ditch was not defined to the west of the Grubenhaus, which might indicate the termination of the ditch but alternatively it may have been destroyed through plough truncation on the chalk knoll. The eastern end of the ditch curves north-eastwards and narrows before terminating adjacent to the butt-end of ditch 012AC09501, which almost certainly formed the eastern boundary of the same enclosure. The ditch was also shown to cut pits 012AC00079 and 012AC00189.

All Contexts and Associated Finds Totals

CUT  FILL VOLUME OBJECTS AN BONE DENSITY
012AC00032 012AC00011        
012AC00041 012AC00040     4  
012AC00070 012AC00069   1 1  

Context Details

012AC00032 Section and Notes

 
KEY_ID TYPE SHAPE L B D PROFILE NOTES
012AC00011 SLOT FILL LINEAR
370
45
10
 U-SHAPED SLOT TRUNCATED BY DITCH 31 ON ITS NORTH SIDE. CHALK FRAGMENTS <5CM IN SIZE.
012AC00032 SLOT CUT LINEAR
370
45
10
 FLAT BASED U SLOT TERMINATING WITH BUTT END. TRUNCATED BY DITCH 31. =41

012AC00041 Section and Notes


 
 
KEY_ID TYPE SHAPE L B D PROFILE NOTES
012AC00040 SLOT FILL LINEAR
730
43
16
 U-SHAPED SLOT WITH FREQ. CHALK FRAGMENTS <7CM IN SIZE ANIMAL BONE. POSSIBLY = 200.
012AC00041 SLOT CUT LINEAR
730
43
16
 V-SHAPED SLOT ALIGNED NW-SE BUTTING AS 32 POSSIBLY = 201

012AC00070 Section and Notes


 
KEY_ID TYPE SHAPE L B D PROFILE NOTES
012AC00069 SLOT FILL LINEAR
160
45
33
 U-SHAPED CHALK FRAGMENTS FREQUENT <5CM IN SIZE . PROBABLY = 336 (POSSIBLY = 40) CURVING N-S
012AC00070 SLOT CUT LINEAR
160
45
33
 V-SHAPED SLOT CUTTING SLOT 36. CUT BY DITCH 33 AND PIT 68. PROBABLY = 337 (POSSIBLY 41)

Objects By Context

KEY_ID OBCODE PERIOD1 MATERIAL TYPE SUB_TYPE CLASS No
012AC00069 AA 4TH CENTURY POTTERY SHERD   ROMANO-BRITISH
1

Animal Bone by Context

KEY_ID SPECIES ELEMENT QUANT CHEW BURN BUTCH FBRK
012AC00040 Cattle Humerus P 1 0 0 0 0
012AC00040 Cattle Radius P 1 0 0 0 0
012AC00040 Sheep/Goat Axis 1 0 0 0 0
012AC00040 Sheep/Goat Femur br 1 0 0 0 1
012AC00069 Pig Astragalus 1 0 0 1 0