Part of a series of bulletins from the BAS excavations at Wickham House
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Attendees: Julian, Carrollanne, Tricia, Charlie, Tim H, Vaughn, Geoff, Gabby, Louise, Gordon, Merrill, Paula and Keith

The first day of our final week on site got off to a brisk start aided by fine dry weather. As this is the last week of excavation the focus was very much on completing ongoing tasks and recording. In Trench 2 Carrollanne and Gabby completed the recording of the surface discovered the week before, whilst Tim excavating a sondage through this surface to investigate what lay beneath. The sondage revealed natural blue/grey clay with pebbles/flints beneath this final surface bringing excavations in Trench 2 to a close. 

In Trench 4B Paula continued the sondage started by James the previous week revealing a cobbled surface which was recorded. A further area was marked out in readiness to investigate other features in the trench tomorrow in more detail. Whilst in Trench 4C Julian removed the large flints from the ditch of the Roman road and finding another Roman coin in context before started to record the newly revealed surface. Also in Trench 4C Louise almost completed the excavation of the sondage where a surface was also revealed below deposits of Roman period pottery.

In trench 4D Charlie and Tricia spent the day excavating the features discovered the previous week in section. Whilst in trench 4E Gordon and Merrill started planning and recording the features also discovered last week. Having completed trench 2 in the morning, Carrollanne and Gabby moved on to trench 1A to complete excavation and recording here also.