Basic Information
- Limestone drainage feature
Sub Groups
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Sub Group: PCO06_289
- Masonry and associated fills
Group Description
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- Truncated by Post Medieval construction cut [1097], but stratigraphically underlying the Post Medieval soils, (1136) formed the upper fill of rounded stone masonry feature {1147}. Underlying (1136) was primary fill (1146), which in colour was mid bluish grey with frequent dark brownish red patches. It was softly compacted and composed of a clayey silt with occasional of pot, bone, CBM, angular to sub-rounded limestone pebbles and cobbles. The stone feature itself, {1147} was built from ragstone that was roughly worked and randomly coursed. It was roughly rounded in plan, but heavily truncated on its eastern side by [1097]. It was bonded by a rough lime mortar and measured 2.8m (N-S) x 1.2m (E-W) x 1.2m (depth). The feature was built into construction cut [1149], which was dug into (1159), the fill of Roman linear feature [1160]. The feature was probably related to water usage, as indicted by the clayey silt fill and the inclusions that were abraded.
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- Chaz Morse
- 26-10-2011
Dating Information
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- Limited pot sherds were recovered from this feature, all four of which were dated to 150-400AD. This feature is seen as late Roman.
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- Chaz Morse
- 26-10-2011