Part of a series of bulletins from the BAS excavations at Wickham House
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Attendees: James, Andrew H, Karen, Chris, Jean, Geoff and Keith
The run of fine weather continued – but it was a bit colder than of late on the exposed hill top where we are excavating. But work continued on the high resolution earth resistance survey by Geoff and Andrew who completed an additional x8 grids of data. This will allow us to position trench #2 and start to remove turves on days #7 and 8 this week.
In trench 1B James and Keith continued to excavate the northly section of the pebble/flint context revealed earlier in the week to reveal the ditch though to lie beneath. Similarly in trench 1A Chris, Jean and Karen excavated the extended area of this trench to reveal the far side of the ditch discovered on Monday.
One of the highlights today was discovering our first Roman coin found in trench 1A giving our first firm dating evidence for contexts revealed so far. Initial indications are that this coin is a Late Roman copper alloy numus minted during the 4th century AD.
