Basic Information
- Gully
Group Description
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- Context (932) was a fill of gully [933]. Some of the pottery is from approx. Deposit(932) is familiar to fill (571) in gully/drain [572] that was located W of [933] and was parallel, both of them running on a N-S axis. Stratigraphically under [975], was (949), the fill of linear cut [957]. This fill contained Post Medieval pottery and its very similar to other Post Medieval fills on site. By the look of [957] it is most likely to be a ditch, possibly related to agricultural activity on the site area. It was dug into the agricultural soils recorded in subgroup 263.
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- Chaz Morse
- 26-10-2011
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- Chaz Morse
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Dating Information
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- From subgroup 246, a total of 15 pot sherds, and of these 11 were dated to 1480-1600AD, and four were dated to 1350-1500AD; these earlier sherds are residual. Subgroup 264 produced a total of 16 pot sherds, and of these 13 were dated 1480-1550AD and three were dated to 1400-1500AD. However stratigraphically this feature was dug into the Post Medieval agricultural soils, which are dated to 1600-1690AD. Additionally this feature would appear to correspond with a land division recorded in the Leake map of 1667 when the area was open fields. Therefore the dating of the ceramics could indicate a backfilling event where material was dug out from an earlier dumped deposit. Alternatively, it is possible that the land division was present in the early Post Medieval, and that it continued into the time when the area was open fields. The later Post Medieval housing developments may have also horizontally truncated the upper half of the feature and so there is a loss of later dating material. This earlier use of the land division is also indicated where the linear is seen to respect the eastern edge of the large early Post Medieval quarry pit in area 1.
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- Chaz Morse
- 26-10-2011
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- Chaz Morse
- 26-10-2011