Contexts
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Context: PCO06_1384
- Redeposited Cremation
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Context: PCO06_1391
- Cut of cremation 1384
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Context: PCO06_1392
- Fill of cremation 1384
Subgroup Narrative Text
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- Underlying Post Medieval soil (1289) was (1370) a redeposited brickearth layer that sealed (1364), the upper fill of [1366] which is truncated from the south by a soak away. Underlying (1364) was (1365), which overlay fill(1369), which in turn overlay (1992), the fill of redeposited cremation (1384), and this context has been sampled (No. 110). This lay within ephemeral cut [1391]. This was dug into mixed fill (1376), which overlay (1385), which overlay (1386), the lower fill of [1366]. This lower fill was fairly sterile compared to the later fills, indicating that the secondary deposits were refuse deposits, while the primary fill was a form of slumpage from the pits sides, indicating that the pit had been left open for sometime after its excavation. Therefore the pit cut was a possible gravel extraction pit, while the secondary fills were refuse used to level off the pit. There was seemingly a number of events that back filled this pit, and the cremation was deposited in the pit during one of the later phases of back filling.
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- Chaz Morse
- 18-7-2011
Dating Narrative
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- The pot sherds recovered from this subgroup were dated to 120-250AD.
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- Chaz Morse
- 18-7-2011