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Wickham House Blog – Day #13 (22nd April 2025)

Part of a series of bulletins from the BAS excavations at Wickham House

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In Trench 1A Jill, Ellena and Peter continued to explore the ditch along side the lane adjoining Ermin Street with a section revealing the stratigraphy of the lane. This was drawn in section and plan, samples taken for further post-excavation analysis and context sheets drafted. Ellena was very pleased with her discovery of a worked flint arrowhead within her first hour of being an archaeologist – a great start!

Figure 1. Flint arrowhead discovered by Ellena and the section across the lane in Trench 1A.

In Trench 1B Stuart, Dee and Geoff cleaned the surface they had been working to reveal of the past couple of days which highlighted at least one likely pit that will be explored further in 50% sections.  Again, the planning and recording of these sections took much of the afternoon.

Figure 2. The cleaned surface of Trench 1B highlighting the pits in the centre and the top left of the photograph.

In Trenches 2A and 2B work continued to clean the surfaces excavated to date, and then to plan, photograph and record new contexts. In the afternoon work continued to excavate these new contexts. 

Figure 3. Chris and Geoff take the levels of Trench 2A whilst Martin and Julian record Trench 2B.