Contexts
Subgroup Narrative Text
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- The 19th century brickwork upper section of the soakaway {301} widened at its base to form a supporting plinth where it was built on to the earlier initial structure of the soakaway, which was a horn core lined pit, {319}. The horn cores were laid horizontally in an interlocking formation to cover the circular feature's wall surface. The size and shape of the horn cores have been noted as reminiscent of horn core lined features from the 17th/18th centuries in East London. Although held in place by their interlocking formation, the horn cores were also bonded by a firmly compacted green-grey silty clay. This lower half of the soak away was filled with context (323), a loosely compacted very dark grey brown course humic silt. It held few inclusions of fragmented red CBM, sub-rounded and rounded pebbles, and flint. The context was a sediment deposit. This is arguably why little organic material survived because as various water sources filtered humic acids through the waste any organic materials decomposed. This lower horn core half of the structure was built into a construction cut [302], which sloped down sharply to its base. The construction was backfilled with context (322), a firmly compacted dark brown grey clay silt with very few inclusions. Context [302], the cut for the soakaway cut down through the sequence of archaeology, with the latest of these deposits was (306) , the fill of pit cut [307].
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- Chaz Morse
- 8-8-2011
Dating Narrative
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- 1. The stratigraphic position, form and function of these features, and the materials used in their construction, demonstrate them to be Late Post Medieval.
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- Chaz Morse
- 8-8-2011