Shows location of spit 12AF48 in relation to the rest of Site 12

012AF00048    Spit


 
Spit Details
Length 516 Width 300 Depth 4
Area  15.48 sq. m Volume
Material Culture Number of Objects 27 Number of Animal Bones 2

Stratigraphic Matrix Diagram

                                                                                       
      012AF00001        012AF00109    012AF00110       012AF00108                     012AF00105   012AF00106   012AF00107   012AF00100   012AF00101   012AF00102    012AF00122    012AF00119    012AF00111   012AF00112   012AF00123
                                                                                       
  012AF00002   012AF00035   012AF00048               012AF00131    012AF00147   012AF00149   012AF00150   012AF00152           012AF00137               012AF00156    012AF00120             
                   012AF00124                                                                     
                          012AF00136                                                012AF00121             
                                                                                       
                                                                                       
                                                                                       

The matrix diagram above shows an extract of the spits from Area 12AF indicating their relationships to each other. Click on the spit number which you wish to see in more detail. The bold, flashing (Netscape browser only) context indicates the current catalogue entry.

Discussion

The spit was the removal of the final hillwash material, revealing the clay lined pit 012AF00020 and the fragmentary wall lines 012AF00019 and 012AF00027. The material removed was a sandy clay loam (Munsell colour 10YR 3/2), darker than the material removed to the west (012AD00002) and east (012AD00035).
 

A problem with the finds from this spit is that all the finds appear to have been given context number 012AD00035. In fact, only one find (a late Roman sherd-Object code 012AD00035AT) came from spit 012AD00035, which was located at the extreme eastern edge of the machine cut trench, with all the others actually belonging to this spit.

012AF00048 Object Totals by Period and Material

 

012AF00048 Animal Bone Totals by Species

 

Context Details

KEY_ID TYPE SHAPE L B D PROFILE NOTES
012AF00048 SPIT RECTANGULAR
516
300
4
 FLAT CLEANING SPIT IN THE CENTRE OF THE TRENCH FURTHER DEFINING THE RED HEARTH DUMP 7 AND EXPOSING THE WALL FOOTING 47 AND POSSIBLE SURFACE 49.

Objects

 

Animal Bones