Wickham House Blog – Day #17 (30th April 2025)

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

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Attendees: James, Nigel, Janet, Lindsey, Jean, Peter, Charlie, Andrew, Martin, Paula and Keith

In trench 1B Charlie, Janet and Nigel cleaned and recorded the features revealed the previous day prior as seen in Figure 1. Work then began to explore the possible ditch at the northern end of the trench extension. Work continued in trench 1A to record the stratigraphy of the construction of the lane in section by Paula and Jean shown in Figure 2.

Figure 1. Charlie, Janet and Nigel recording features revealed in Trench 1B.
Figure 2. Paula and Jean  recording features revealed in section in Trench 1A.

In Trench 2A Lindsey, Nigel and Peter completed cleaning the surfaces revealed last week before planning them and taking levels. The recording of the contexts removed from Trench 2A were also completed. In Trench 2B Andrew and Martin were also recording the revealed surfaces in plan and completing records of contexts defined.

Figure 3. Nigel and Peter cleaning surfaces in Trench 2A whilst Andrew records features in Trench 2B.