012AD00041

Ditch


 
 
Ditch Details
Length  460 Maximum Width 44 Maximum Depth 12 Profile U-shaped
Material Culture Number of Objects 1 Number of Animal Bones 1
Environmental       

Phasing

Although containing no diagnostic material culture, this ditch has been phased to the Anglian period, based on its association with 012AD00007.

Discussion

All of the features in the immediate area were severely plough truncated, situated as they are on a chalky knoll. It is probable that this feature, along with parallel ditches 012AD00007, 012AD00005 and 012AD00039, are just the remnant bases of a number of recuts of an enclosure ditch which only survives in this short segment.

The fill was a sandy loam (Munsell 10YR 4/3), with a 5% chalk inclusion rate. There was no charcoal or daub flecking present. The ditch was cut into white chalk with a U-profile.

All Contexts and Associated Finds Totals

CUT  FILL VOLUME OBJECTS AN BONE DENSITY
012AD00041 012AD00040   1 1  

Context Details

012AD00041 Notes

KEY_ID TYPE SHAPE L B D PROFILE NOTES
012AD00040 SLOT FILL LINEAR
460
44
12
 U-SHAPED SEVERELY PLOUGH TRUNCATED SLOT. 1 OF 4 PARALLEL SLOTS IN THIS AREA. NO FINDS. NO DAUB OR CHARCOAL. 
012AD00041 SLOT CUT LINEAR
460
44
12
 U-SHAPED SEVERELY PLOUGH TRUNCATED SLOT. 1 OF 4 PARALLEL SLOTS IN THIS AREA. CUT INTO NATURAL WHITE CHALK. TURNS MORE SHARPLY TO THE EAST THAN THE OTHER 3 SLOTS

Objects

KEY_ID OB PERIOD MATERIAL TYPE SUB_TYPE CLASS No
012AD00040 AA   STONE STONE    
1

Animal Bone

KEY_ID SPECIES ELEMENT QUANT CHEW BURN BUTCH FBRK
012AD00040 Cattle Phalanx 3 1 0 0 0 0