012AD00039

Ditch


 
 
Ditch Details
Length  345 Maximum Width 25 Maximum Depth 3 Profile U-shaped
Material Culture Number of Objects 2 Number of Animal Bones 2
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 012AD00041, 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 flecking present, and a single fragment of daub was recovered. Also found was a small fragment of ?slag, and 2 small animal bones. The ditch was cut into white chalk with a U-profile (difficult to establish due to the extreme shallowness of the feature).

All Contexts and Associated Finds Totals

CUT  FILL VOLUME OBJECTS AN BONE DENSITY
012AD00039 012AD00038   2 2   

Context Details

012AD00039 Notes

KEY_ID TYPE SHAPE L B D PROFILE NOTES
012AD00038 DITCH FILL LINEAR
345
25
3
 U-SHAPED SEVERELY PLOUGH TRUNCATED DITCH. 1 OF 4 PARALLEL SLOTS IN THIS AREA. CONTAINED 2 PIECES OF ANIMAL BONE AND ONE SMALL PIECE OF IRON.
012AD00039 DITCH CUT LINEAR
345
25
3
 U-SHAPED SEVERELY PLOUGH TRUNCATED DITCH. 1 OF 4 PARALLEL SLOTS IN THIS AREA. CUT INTO NATURAL WHITE CHALK. PROFILE DIFFICULT TO ESTABLISH DUE TO PLOUGH TRUNCATION

Objects

KEY_ID OB PERIOD MATERIAL TYPE SUB_TYPE CLASS No
012AD00038 AA   SLAG? SLAG FRAGMENT?    
1
012AD00038 AB   DAUB DAUB    
1

Animal Bone

KEY_ID SPECIES ELEMENT QUANT CHEW BURN BUTCH FBRK
012AD00038 Cattle Phalanx 3 1 0 0 0 0
012AD00038 Pig M/T C 1 0 0 0 0