{"id":12706,"date":"2025-05-07T09:28:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T08:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/?p=12706"},"modified":"2025-07-29T17:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T16:16:13","slug":"wickham-house-blog-day-19-6th-may-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wickham-house-blog-day-19-6th-may-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Wickham House Blog \u2013 Day #19 (6th May 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Part of a series of bulletins from the\u00a0BAS excavations at Wickham House<\/a><\/em>
Follow the project on our\u00a0YouTube channel<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attendees<\/strong>: Deborah, Tim L, Martin, Gabby, Margaret, Jill, Terry, Barbara, Hazel, Phyllida and Keith<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Work continued in the southerly extension of Trench 2B with Gabby, Deborah and Martin who completed removal of the topsoil and recorded the contexts revealed. After recording work continued to remove the next layer of stratigraphy \u2013 and discovered a Roman numus denomination coin within the last bucket of the day on the spoil heap.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure 1. Gabby, Deborah and Martin recording Trench 2B.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Figure 2. Roman numus discovered within Trench 2B.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In trench 1A Jill and Margaret worked on sampling the fills of the two ditches revealed in 10cm spits so that finds can be used as dating evidence for these deposits. The samples will be used to identify activities that may have taken place within the nearby paddocks using XRF testing.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure 3. Jill removing the fill from one of the two ditches in Trench 1A.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In trench 2A work continued to define the extent of the deposit of large flints at the southern end of the trench. This revealed a possible N-S aligned edge together with less dense deposit of the flints overlaying fragments of roof line suggesting post-demolition deposition. Further work will be needed to clarify this interim interpretation. The northern end of Trench 2A Tim revealed a shallow sandy\/mortar deposit parallel to the N-S aligned edge revealed last week suggesting that these two features are associated.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure 4. Tim L, Terry, Hazel and Barbara excavating Trench 2A.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Figure 5. The N-S aligned features emerging in Trench 2A after cleaning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

We were lucky enough today to be joined by Phyllida Shelley who is a prominent local artist living in Cookham, who the \u2018artist in residence\u2019 at the University of Reading\u2019s excavation at Cookham Abbey. Phyllida\u2019s portfolio includes artistic interpretations of archaeology in action, and being keen to gain a perspective of voluntary sector archaeology, spent the day with us capturing interpretations of the features being revealed in the trenches by the BAS team. You can see more of Phyllida\u2019s work at www.phyllidashelley.com \u2013 and the day\u2019s results shown in Figure 7 vividly compliment the objectivity of the plans\/sections produced by the BAS team on perma-trace to great effect\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure 6. Phyllida drawing the N-S aligned edge of flints revealed in Trench 2A.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Figure 7. Amazing artwork from Phyllida!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Part of a series of bulletins from the\u00a0BAS excavations at Wickham HouseFollow the project on our\u00a0YouTube channel Attendees: Deborah, Tim L, Martin, Gabby, Margaret, Jill, Terry, Barbara, Hazel, Phyllida and Keith Work continued in the southerly extension of Trench 2B with Gabby, Deborah and Martin who completed removal of the topsoil and recorded the contexts … Continue reading Wickham House Blog \u2013 Day #19 (6th May 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-12706","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12706","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=12706"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12746,"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12706\/revisions\/12746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}