{"id":13013,"date":"2025-06-11T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/?p=13013"},"modified":"2025-07-29T17:23:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T16:23:52","slug":"wickham-house-blog-day-33-10th-june-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wickham-house-blog-day-33-10th-june-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Wickham House Blog \u2013 Day #33 (10th\u00a0June 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> James P, Martin, Carrollanne, Tim L, Gary, Lindsey, Thalia, Charlie, Hazel, Judy, Julian, Jill, Gabby and Keith<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the return of fine weather work quickly got underway in Trench 4A with Hazel, Judy and Charlie to define the surfaces revealed last week thought to be part of a Roman period roadside building. Hazel was focusing on the defining the linear feature of large flints and Judy was exploring a lens of CBM\/pottery sherds on what was thought to be outside of the building as shown in Figure 1. Hazel discovered a copper-alloy radiate coin most likely of Tetricus II dating to AD273-274 (probably minted in Trier) in context giving a useful spot date to these contexts. In Trench 4A James completed the recording of the features explored last week bringing work in this trench to an end.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure 1. Hazel and Judy excavating within Trench 4B.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Figure 2. Radiate coin found by Hazel in Trench 4B<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In Trench 2 Lindsey completed recording of the surface revealed the previous week and marked out the next context for excavation, whilst Tim and Carrollanne continued to remove deposits to the south. At the far end of Trench 2 Martin focused on recording the sections of the ditch of the Roman road.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure 3. Lindsey and Martin at work in Trench 2.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

A new 6m x 1m trench 4C was opened to explore the relationship between the building being explored in trenches 4A and 4B and the Roman road to the south. Julian, Gary, Gabby and James made good progress in removing the overburden, and in the process discovered a Roman 4th<\/sup> century AD numus coin and a gilded button most likely dating to the Medieval period.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure 4. Gary and Julian excavating within Trench 4C<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Figure 5. Button and Roman coin found in Trench 4C.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In trench 3 Thalia and Jill finalised the excavation and completed much of the recording. With a small amount of work remaining it is likely that this trench too will be completed tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure 6. Thalia and Charlie taking levels in Trench 3.<\/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: James P, Martin, Carrollanne, Tim L, Gary, Lindsey, Thalia, Charlie, Hazel, Judy, Julian, Jill, Gabby and Keith With the return of fine weather work quickly got underway in Trench 4A with Hazel, Judy and Charlie to define … Continue reading Wickham House Blog \u2013 Day #33 (10th\u00a0June 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-13013","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13013","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=13013"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13025,"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13013\/revisions\/13025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}