Part of a series of bulletins from the BAS excavations at Wickham House
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Attendees: Tim L, Martin, Andrew H, James, Andrew R, Gabby, Margaret, Hazel, Susanne, Jean, Julian, Doug, Philip and Keith

Once again fine weather enabled a very productive day on site with excavation and geophysics running in parallel and a number of interesting finds being revealed. 

In Trench 1B Andrew, James and Jean explored the ditch with stones along the southerly edge and a context of pebble deposit along its northerly edge in half section as shown in Figure 3.  

In Trench 2A Tim continued to evaluate the possible ditch discovered at the northerly end of the trench and its relation to the deposit of sand/clay that is aligned with the N-S aligned edge of large flints. At the southerly end of Trench 2A recording was completed and the trench was extended to the southwest to join up with Trench 2B by Doug, Hazel and Gabby.

In Trench 2B two E-W ditches were excavated by Julian, Andrew and Martin as first step to removing the gravel deposits thought to lie above the clay remains of the foundations of the Roman road. Julian discovered a copper alloy coin in context thought to be a Roman numus.