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

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Attendees: James, Tim H, Lindsey, Gary, Jim, Penny, Susanna, Debbie, Martin, Tony, Charlotte and Keith

In trench 2B the day started with the planning, recording and photographing of the surface revealed earlier in the week. Tony and Martin then excavated the linear feature cut into the bed of clay (possibly the foundation of the Roman road?) visible in SE and SW of the trench. The content of this linear feature (possibly associated with the N-S aligned rectilinear features visible on the earth resistance geophysics survey) contained a blue/grey gravel not seen elsewhere on the site, but more work is needed to complete the investigation of this feature.

In Trench 2A Lindsey, Charlotte, Penny and Tim made good progress revealing the surface of large flint deposits revealed earlier in the week which revealed an N-S aligned edge at the northerly end of the trench. Many Roman pottery sherds were found together another Roman coin found in context by Lindsey, a large section of pottery storage jar discovered by Penny and a complete pottery base found by Tim.

In Trench 1B Debbie, James and Susanna explored the dark organic deposits revealed by Stuart yesterday in 25% section which were retained as a bulk sample. This deposit turned out to be relatively shallow over natural. Debbie and Susanna then moved into Trench 1A to further explore the deposits revealed in section earlier in the week, whilst Gary and Jim extended Trench 1B 2m northwards hoping to reveal the ditch shown in the geophysics survey perpendicular to the ditch revealed in Trench 1A.