Context

Cutting

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Cat

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North

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Max Length

Depth/Height

Layer

Overlies/Seals

Overlain/Sealed by

Cuts

Cut by

Abuts/Contiguous

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Hand FS

Typed FS

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Hand drawi

Ink drawing

F00535

Site of hawthorn bush, whose roots had grown outwards into bedrock. Very disturbed bedrock indicating that vegetation had grown into a dug out pit. Trowelled down but the stones became larger and flatter as the level was lowered, probably therefore representing natural strata in a bedrock cluster caused by roots.

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F00536

Posthole underneath road surface. Surface showed some flat stones burnt red with a circular soil and chipple area around it. Infill also contained a few pieces of burnt limestone, but the main matrix was unburnt stone packed tightly with the subsoil. Towards the bottom the subsoil turned a mouldy grey colour. Still with packed stones 3 cms from the bottom, the grey soil plus stones formed a flat level possibly a packing to level the bottom of the posthole. Finds: 21 pieces of daub and a rim sherd of plain black pot, burnt bone, cinder, charcoal and 7 fragments of sandstone, all found in the upper half of the posthole [CH72/ 6158-60, 7033-4, 7074-6].

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56 cms diam

68 cms

Road surface

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F00537

Posthole underneath road surface, indicated at first by a circular chipple area surrounded by bedrock. A few small pink stones were among the surface chipples. This is a very well cut posthole with vertical sides extending 63 cms into the bedrock. The infill consisted of soil and small stones (but not as small as chipples), tightly packed. At the bottom, there was a slanting layer of greyer earth which contained fewer stones than the layer above. This was probably a silting layer. No finds from this posthole.

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49 cms diam

62 cms

Road surface

Bedrock

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F00538

Posthole underneath road surface. Surface stone was partially burnt. Infill consisted of tightly packed soil and stones turning into a grey layer, but basically the same material. No chipples except around the surface where the surface stone had been burnt. Finds: one piece of pot. Finds: One plain orange bodysherd [CH72/7302]

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52 cms diam

62 cms

Road surface

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F00539

Posthole underneath road surface. In heavily disturbed area, with quantities of pitched stones directly to SE of posthole. 2 layers.

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54 cms

Road surface

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F00548

Chipple area by B4 post. Consisted of an area of burnt pink and grey chipples down to a depth of 35cm.

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35 cms

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F00549

Posthole, in line with F00528 and F00536. The infilling is many hard-packed medium and large stones in a medium-dark soil, and the posthole was sealed below the edge of the roadway of the final cobbling. Finds: 2 sherds of pottery [CH72/7316]

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58 cms diam

60 cms

F00528, F00536

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