012AD00642

Pit

Phasing

The pit contained no diagnostic material culture, although stratigraphically it must be earlier than the Middle Saxon period. Typologically, most of the other quarry pits in the area contain only later Roman material.

Stratigraphic Matrix Diagram

      012AD00272       
             
             
        012AD00587     
             
    012AD00588         
             
        012AD00546     
             
    012AD00586         
             
    012AD00642         
             
             

Discussion

This was a quarry pit, cut by enclosure ditch 012AD00272. It was located on the interface between chalk bedrock and hillwash deposits. The primary fill (012AD00586), was a dark, silty clay loam (Munsell colour 10YR 3/2), with less than 5% chalk inclusions. Some daub was noted, and almost 5% of the fill was composed of charcoal flecking. This was sealed by a burnt daub deposit (012AD00546), with a Munsell colour of 2.5 YR 4/8. It contained charcoal flecking and pink chalk fragments, indicating it was probably a dump of furnace material. This deposit did not extend across the whole length of the feature. Then came fill 012AD00588, a sandy clay loam (Munsell colour 10YR 4/3), which contained 10% chalk inclusion, angular and up to 10cm in diameter. Some daub and charcoal flecking was noted, and only small fragments of bone were recovered. The final fill was 012AD00587, a sandy clay loam (Munsell colour 10YR 4/3), with up to 30% chalk inclusions. There was no daub or charcoal flecking. Some bone which may have been in this fill was lifted under the ditch fill number 012AD00271.

The pit was cut into natural chalk in the south and hillwash in the north, with an irregular U-shaped profile.

All Contexts and Associated Finds Totals

CUT  FILL VOLUME OBJECTS AN BONE DENSITY
012AD00642 012AD00546   7 (1)  
  012AD00586   0 9  
  012AD00587   0 0  
  012AD00588   0 1  

012AD00586 Animal Bone Totals by Species

KEY_ID SPECIES No
012AD00586 Domestic fowl
1
  Pig
3
  Sheep/Goat
5

Context Details

012AD0 Section and Notes


 
KEY_ID TYPE SHAPE L B D PROFILE NOTES
012AD00546 PIT FILL LINEAR
117
33
35
 IRREGULAR FILL OF PIT. DAUB DEPOSIT DUMPED IN DITCH. PIECES OF DAUB AS WELL AS DAUB AND PINK CHALK MIX. FLECKS OF CHARCOAL.
012AD00586 PIT FILL LINEAR
140
74
12
 FLAT FILL OF PIT. VERY SILTY DEPOSIT BELOW DAUB LAYER.5% CHARCOAL FLECKING. SOME DAUB FLECKING. < 5% CHALK INCLUSIONS < 5CMS. SOME BONE FOUND.
012AD00587 PIT FILL LINEAR
120
67
23
 IRREGULAR FILL OF PIT. NO CHARCOAL OR DAUB FLECKING. SOME BONE FOUND BAGGED UNDER 271. 30% CHALK INCLUSIONS 1-20CMS.
012AD00588 PIT FILL LINEAR
140
74
19
 IRREGULAR FILL OF PIT. SOME DAUB AND CHARCOAL FLECKING. SOME BONE FOUND. 10% CHALK INCLUSIONS 1-10CMS.
012AD00642 PIT CUT LINEAR
300
76
70
 U-SHAPED CUT OF PIT. CUT MAINLY INTO CHALK BUT ON N SIDE HILLWASH. MAY BE A QUARRY PIT. DITCH 271/2 APPEARS TO CUT THROUGH 587 TOP FILL. 4 FILLS IN CUT.

Objects

KEY_ID OB PERIOD MATERIAL TYPE SUB_TYPE CLASS No
012AD00546 AA   DAUB BURNT     
2
012AD00546 AB   DAUB BURNT     
6
012AD00546 AC   DAUB BURNT     
15
012AD00546 AD   DAUB BURNT     
17
012AD00546 AE   DAUB BURNT     
29
012AD00546 AF   DAUB BURNT     
27
012AD00546 AG   DAUB BURNT     
19

Animal Bones

KEY_ID SPECIES ELEMENT QUANT CHEW BURN BUTCH FBRK
012AD00586 Domestic fowl Tarsom/t 1 0 0 0 0
012AD00586 Pig Mandible 1 0 0 0 0
012AD00586 Pig Pelvis 1 0 0 0 0
012AD00586 Pig Radius C 1 0 0 0 0
012AD00586 Sheep/Goat Humerus fr 1 0 0 0 0
012AD00586 Sheep/Goat Humerus fr 1 0 0 0 0
012AD00586 Sheep/Goat Ld4 1 0 0 0 0
012AD00586 Sheep/Goat Mandible 1 0 0 0 0
012AD00586 Sheep/Goat Scapula 1 0 0 0 0
012AD00588 Cattle Femur P 1 0 0 0 0
012AD00642 Pig Atlas 1 0 0 0 1