{"id":12508,"date":"2025-04-11T07:57:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T06:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/?p=12508"},"modified":"2025-07-29T17:10:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T16:10:55","slug":"wickham-house-blog-day-6-9th-april-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wickham-house-blog-day-6-9th-april-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Wickham House Blog \u2013 Day #6 (9th\u00a0April 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Part of a series of bulletins from the BAS excavations at Wickham House<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Follow the project on our YouTube channel<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attendees:<\/strong>\u00a0James, Andrew H, Karen, Chris, Jean, Geoff and Keith<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The run of fine weather continued \u2013 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.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure 1. Geoff and Andrew continuing with the earth resistance survey.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/sup> century AD. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure 2. James excavating in trench 1B.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Figure 3. Chris, Jean and Karen excavating trench 1A<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Figure 4. Roman coin found in trench 1A.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Part of a series of bulletins from the BAS excavations at Wickham House Follow the project on our YouTube channel Attendees:\u00a0James, Andrew H, Karen, Chris, Jean, Geoff and Keith The run of fine weather continued \u2013 but it was a bit colder than of late on the exposed hill top where we are excavating. But … Continue reading Wickham House Blog \u2013 Day #6 (9th\u00a0April 2025)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12508","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12518,"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12508\/revisions\/12518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}