Basic Information
- Cluster of burials
Sub Groups
Group Description
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- Stratigraphically below ditch cut [316] was (325), the fill of grave cut [326] which was cut for burial 324. The burial was truncated at it's western end by soakaway construction cut [311] and at it's eastern end the grave cut was truncated by pit cut [307]. Nails were found within the grave fill, indicating that (325) was the collapsed in fill after a wooden coffin had degraded. The skeleton within the grave was lying supine, east-west. The head would have been at the west end of the grave, although as stated above the upper two thirds of the body had been truncated away by ditch cut [316] and soak-away construction cut [311]. Of the remaining bones, the right and left tibia and fibula's survived and were recorded as lying in extended positions, along with the right femur. Grave cuts [335] and [326] were cut into (1808) (sampled as <188>), the fill of grave cut [1810], that was dug for burial 1809. The burial had been heavily truncated, with only the lower leg bones and the feet remaining. [1810] was dug into (1864), a Roman layer. In a very heavily truncated area of the site, and truncated by modern activity, (1826) formed the fill of grave cut [1825], the grave for burial 1824, which was in relatively good condition. Cut [1825] was stratigraphically one of the earliest features in this area of the site.
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- Chaz Morse
- 31-10-2011
Dating Information
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- No datable finds were recovered from the fills of these burials, but this may have resulted from them having been heavily truncated by Post Medieval features. However due to their stratigraphic position they are seen as late Roman.
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- Chaz Morse
- 31-10-2011