Basic Information
- Sequence of inter-cutting Roman pits
Sub Groups
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Sub Group: PCO06_82
- Heavily truncated pit
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Sub Group: PCO06_87
- Cut and fill of pit
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Sub Group: PCO06_89
- Cut and fill of pit
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Sub Group: PCO06_91
- Cut and fill of pit
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Sub Group: PCO06_92
- Cut and fill of pit
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Sub Group: PCO06_101
- Cut and fill of pit
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Sub Group: PCO06_102
- Cut and fill of pit
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Sub Group: PCO06_103
- Cut and fill of pit
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Sub Group: PCO06_106
- Cut and fill of pit
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Sub Group: PCO06_118
- Cut and primary fill of pit
Group Description
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- A series of Roman pits, seen as early refuse pits was dug into the natural gravels in the west of the site area. They consisted of Subgroups 82, 87, 89, 91, 92, 101, 102, 103, and 106. They were intercutting and were heavily truncated by later Early Post Medieval small scale quarrying. The function of these pits was seen as being some form of small scale gravel extraction from the early Roman period.
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- Chaz Morse
- 13-10-2011
Dating Information
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- The pot recovered from these pits was dated to the early Roman period, with given dates of 50-160AD and 50-250AD. Some of the pot was more broadly dated to 50-400AD, but this still consolidates the dating to the Roman period. Not all the pits held dating material, but given their straigraphic position and relationship with well dated Roman pits, they are also seen as Roman.
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- Chaz Morse
- 13-10-2011