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

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Attendees: James, Debbie, Louise, Nigel, Janet, Lindsey, Julian, Martin, Paula and Keith

In trench 1B Janet and Nigel cleaned up the northerly extension of the trench that was opened the previous week. This revealed interesting new features shown in Figure 1 suggesting a possible wall and hints of the expected ditch at the northern end of the extension. These features will be further defined and recorded in the coming days.

In Trench 2A, Lindsey and Louise further defined the flint surface revealed the previous week and cleaned the surfaces either side of this features prior to recording, photographing and taking levels. In Trench 1A Paula and Debbie were working on further sections of the lane to reveal the stratigraphy of its construction.

In trench 2B Julian and Martin reduced the levels to reveal the cut of a N-S oriented ditch in section transecting clay deposits along the southerly edge of the trench as suggested by the earth resistance geophysics survey. The other features suggested by the geophysics within this trench have not yet been defined and will require further work. The remains of the Roman Road expected to the south of the site in this area have not yet been positively identified and remain a priority for definitively locate.