{"id":12616,"date":"2025-04-24T09:07:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T08:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/?p=12616"},"modified":"2025-07-29T17:30:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T16:30:43","slug":"wickham-house-blog-day-13-22nd-april-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wickham-house-blog-day-13-22nd-april-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Wickham House Blog \u2013 Day #13 (22nd\u00a0April 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Part of a series of bulletins from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/evaluation-excavations-at-wickham-house\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"12254\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BAS excavations at Wickham House<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow the project on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLqz4Lxf4xFrh1hsPGSqdKXkqBWJ04qlDq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">YouTube channel<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Trench 1A Jill, Ellena and Peter continued to explore the ditch along side the lane adjoining Ermin Street with a section revealing the stratigraphy of the lane. This was drawn in section and plan, samples taken for further post-excavation analysis and context sheets drafted. Ellena was very pleased with her discovery of a worked flint arrowhead within her first hour of being an archaeologist \u2013 a great start!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"451\" height=\"254\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-8.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12618\" style=\"width:504px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-8.png 451w, https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-8-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Figure 1. Flint arrowhead discovered by Ellena and the section across the lane in Trench 1A.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In Trench 1B Stuart, Dee and Geoff cleaned the surface they had been working to reveal of the past couple of days which highlighted at least one likely pit that will be explored further in 50% sections.\u00a0\u00a0Again, the planning and recording of these sections took much of the afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"339\" height=\"451\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-48.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12620\" style=\"width:504px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-48.jpeg 339w, https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-48-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 339px) 100vw, 339px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Figure 2. The cleaned surface of Trench 1B highlighting the pits in the centre and the top left of the photograph.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In Trenches 2A and 2B work continued to clean the surfaces excavated to date, and then to plan, photograph and record new contexts. In the afternoon work continued to excavate these new contexts.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"451\" height=\"254\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-9.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12622\" style=\"width:504px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-9.png 451w, https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-9-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Figure 3. Chris and Geoff take the levels of Trench 2A whilst Martin and Julian record Trench 2B.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of a series of bulletins from the BAS excavations at Wickham House Follow the project on our YouTube channel In Trench 1A Jill, Ellena and Peter continued to explore the ditch along side the lane adjoining Ermin Street with a section revealing the stratigraphy of the lane. This was drawn in section and plan, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wickham-house-blog-day-13-22nd-april-2025\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wickham House Blog \u2013 Day #13 (22nd\u00a0April 2025)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-12616","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12616","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=12616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12624,"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12616\/revisions\/12624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}