{"id":12558,"date":"2025-04-15T07:37:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T06:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/?p=12558"},"modified":"2025-07-29T17:11:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T16:11:28","slug":"wickham-house-blog-day-9-14th-april-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wickham-house-blog-day-9-14th-april-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Wickham House Blog \u2013 Day #9 (14th\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> Karen, Tim L, Lindsey, Julian, Chris, Stuart, Louise, Jackie, Geoff, Nick, Nigel and Keith<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the weekend all the finds from Day #1-Day #8 were sorted, washed (if required) and re-bagged by material\/context as shown in Figure 1. There is a wide variety of finds so far dating from the 20th<\/sup> century to the Roman period indicating some exciting post-excavation analysis in store later in the year.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure 1. Finds processing over the weekend.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Figure 2. Excavating Trench 2A on Day #9.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

During Day #9 Lindsey, Karen, Jackie, Chris and Nigel continued work to remove the remaining topsoil in Trench 2A as shown in Figure 2, which was achieved by the end of the day. Tomorrow will see this surface cleaned and recorded before the first layer of archaeology is then removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Trench 1A Stuart and Louise focused on the careful excavation of the ditch feature as shown in Figure 3. This resulted in discover of iron slag and pottery sherds. Work on excavating this feature will continue tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure 3. Stuart and Lousie excavating the ditch feature in Trench 1A and a pottery rim discovered in Trench 1A.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

View a photogrammetry model that Stuart made of the trench here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Trench 1B Tim, Geoff, Julian and Nick removed a large portion of the context containing pottery, iron slag and nails and revealed a new context beneath which will be cleaned and recorded tomorrow. The finds of the day from Trench 1B were two Roman coins \u2013 a Numus dating to the 4th<\/sup> century AD found by Geoff and an As dating to the 1st<\/sup> century AD (found in context) by Julian. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure 4. Nick and Julian sieving spoil from Trench 1B, and Julian feeling very pleased with his discovery of a Roman As \u2018in context\u2019 within Trench 1B.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In the afternoon Tim and Geoff led training of use of the earth resistance meter adding further to the detail of features in the south of the site close to the Roman road. This image suggests a N-S aligned structure across the Roman Road (but not aligned with it) that will be explored over the coming season together with the Roman period features likely to lie beneath.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure 5. High resolution earth resistance image for Day #<\/em>9.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Part of a series of bulletins from the BAS excavations at Wickham House Follow the project on our YouTube channel Attendees: Karen, Tim L, Lindsey, Julian, Chris, Stuart, Louise, Jackie, Geoff, Nick, Nigel and Keith Over the weekend all the finds from Day #1-Day #8 were sorted, washed (if required) and re-bagged by material\/context as shown … Continue reading Wickham House Blog \u2013 Day #9 (14th\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-12558","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12558","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=12558"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12602,"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12558\/revisions\/12602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}