{"id":12728,"date":"2025-05-10T09:32:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T08:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/?p=12728"},"modified":"2025-07-29T17:16:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T16:16:21","slug":"wickham-house-blog-day-20-8th-may-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wickham-house-blog-day-20-8th-may-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Wickham House Blog \u2013 Day #20 (8th\u00a0May 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> Tim L, Martin, Andrew H, James, Andrew R, Gabby, Margaret, Hazel, Susanne, Jean, Julian, Doug, Philip and Keith<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once again fine weather enabled a very productive day on site with excavation and geophysics running in parallel and a number of interesting finds being revealed. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure 1. Excavation in all four trenches and geophysics surveys in progress.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Figure 2. Jean and Margaret excavating in Trench 1A.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In Trench 1B Andrew, James and Jean explored the ditch with stones along the southerly edge and a context of pebble deposit along its northerly edge in half section as shown in Figure 3.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure 3. Excavation continues in Trench 1B.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In Trench 2A Tim continued to evaluate the possible ditch discovered at the northerly end of the trench and its relation to the deposit of sand\/clay that is aligned with the N-S aligned edge of large flints. At the southerly end of Trench 2A recording was completed and the trench was extended to the southwest to join up with Trench 2B by Doug, Hazel and Gabby.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure 4. Work continues in Trench 2A.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In Trench 2B two E-W ditches were excavated by Julian, Andrew and Martin as first step to removing the gravel deposits thought to lie above the clay remains of the foundations of the Roman road. Julian discovered a copper alloy coin in context thought to be a Roman numus.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure 5. Excation in Trench 2B and the Roman coin discovered by Julian.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Figure 6. High resolution earth resistance survey results so far.<\/em><\/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: Tim L, Martin, Andrew H, James, Andrew R, Gabby, Margaret, Hazel, Susanne, Jean, Julian, Doug, Philip and Keith Once again fine weather enabled a very productive day on site with excavation and geophysics running in parallel and a … Continue reading Wickham House Blog \u2013 Day #20 (8th\u00a0May 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-12728","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12728","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=12728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12744,"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12728\/revisions\/12744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}