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and a concave base. It was filled with a dark brown/black silty sand
with a little clay and small patches of clean yellow sand silt. There
were large quantities of burnt red clay flecks and charcoal flecks. A
single late 11th to 12th century (Phase 1) pottery sherd was recovered.
A soil sample (11) produced a large collection of charred grains as well
as some fishbone. A second feature 448 was mostly under the south
baulk (not excavated) but a sherd of 12th to 13th century pottery
(Phase 1/2) was found in the cleaning.
5.4 Trench 4 (Figs. 4 and 6)
Trench 4 measured 10m 2 and was placed over an area of features
including a possible oven/hearth suggested in the geophysical survey
(Fig. 4). A large Victorian quarry pit (450) was uncovered in the
southern part of the trench. The pit was more than 9m long and 2m
wide and filled with disturbed mid grey brown silty sand with clay and
yellow silty sand patches. Nineteenth century glass and brick were
recovered.
5.5 Trench 5 (Fig. 4)
Trench 5 was 10m by 5m in plan, and was aligned roughly parallel to
Wash Road in an area the geophysics survey report recorded as
devoid of features apart from a single ditch (Fig. 4). The evaluation
trench uncovered no archaeological remains with natural subsoil
uncovered directly below the 0.30m thick topsoil.
5.6 Trench 6 (Figs. 4 and 6)
Trench 6 measured 10m by 5m and was located within an area where
the geophysics survey recorded dense features. The cropmark
evidence implied that it lay within the moated enclosure (Fig. 4). The
evaluation trench uncovered very dense archaeological remains
directly below 0.30m of topsoil comprising one ditch, c. two pits and c.
fifteen postholes (possibly several buildings of different periods). A
representative number of features were evaluated (Fig. 6).
A probable Late Saxon (Phase 1) pit 325 was more than 1.12m long,
0.80m wide and 0.31m deep (Fig. 7, S.6). It was filled with three
deposits (322-4) with the primary fill consisting of a light brownish
yellow silty clay which contained a Late Saxon pottery sherd, some
iron slag and fired clay. This deposit was overlain by a very dark
greyish brown silt with occasional slag and three sherds of pottery.
The upper layer was a brown silt containing a Late Saxon pottery
sherd, slag, animal bone and a Saxo-Norman iron knife blade.
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