Basic Information
- Drainage features
Sub Groups
Group Description
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- This group comprised of two drainage features. In the north west of the site area was a red brick well subgroup 110, formed by {505}. This was determined to be a well rather than a soak away due to broad diameter, the spiral construction of the brick work seen as providing a stronger structural formation than that of the horizontal coursing normally used for soak aways, and the slots found within the masonry indicating that beams would have been used to help access the interior. The well was built into construction cut [506]. The latest fill was (507), a dark blue grey clayey organic layer. At the base of the well cut was (879), an organic layer sampled as <10>. Below this around the edges of the cut was (512), a mixed deposit of organic clays and gravels and sands. This deposit was seen to be the construction cut backfill of the brick lining, that had also slumped below the masonry. The original backfill was probably the sands and gravels, but the deposit had become mixed with the sludgy organic material due to waters leaching out of the well wall. The cut [506] was stepped in at the base to form a supporting ledge for the masonry, but it also continued down a further 1.2 metres, into the natural gravels. Adjacent to this feature was horn core pit {513}, which was built into construction cut [514], and was constructed with the use of bonding agent (516). There were two events realting to the associated fills and these are set as sub-groups 113 and 114.
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Dating Information
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- A total of 17 pot sherds were recovered from fill (515), all of which were dated to 1660-1680. A fragment of clay smoking pipe was recovered from (654), broadly dated to 1580-1910. The bonding agent used for the horncores of this pit, (516), did produce 22 pot sherds, 21 of which dated to 1630-1680, and one of which was dated to 1270-1500 (which is residual). No dating evidence was retrived from the other fills, however given their stratigraphic position and relationships, and their function, they are clearly late Post Medieval.
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- Chaz Morse
- 19-10-2011