{"id":13573,"date":"2026-04-16T09:08:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T08:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/?p=13573"},"modified":"2026-05-14T09:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:02:08","slug":"wickham-house-2026-day-8-blog-15th-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/wickham-house-2026-day-8-blog-15th-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Wickham House 2026 \u2013 Day #8 Blog (15th April)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Part of a series of bulletins from the\u00a0BAS excavations at Wickham House<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Follow the project on our\u00a0<\/span>YouTube channel<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attendees:<\/strong> Nigel R, Janet R, Gill, Tony, Stuart, Julian, Philip, Ben, Tess, Alessa, Paula, Jean, Kate, James P and Keith <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With rain forecast for the afternoon, work in the trenches got off to a brisk start. In Trench 15 Paula, Kate, Jean and Janet continued to define the fill of the Roman road ditch, and by the end of the day appeared to have identified the intersection of the lane adjoining the Roman road from the north as shown in Figure 1.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure 1 Kate, Jean and Paula excavating within Trench 15.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In Trench 16 James excavated the northern extent of the masonry wall that has so far been revealed, and in the process discovered a copper alloy \u2018barbarous radiate\u2019 coin. Keith started the detailed planning of this horizon of archaeology, which will be completed tomorrow with levels and photographs once James\u2019 area has been cleaned. At the northern end of Trench 16 Stuart and Tess continued to explore the \u2018dark earth\u2019 deposits where the masonry wall is no longer to be seen, and in the process discovered a nice sherd of Central Gaul Samian pottery featuring a leaf motif.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure 2 Stuart, Tess and James at work in Trench 16<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Figure 3. The Samian sherd discovered by Tess<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Figure 4 Planning the south end of Trench 16<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Philip, Ben, Tony and Gill carried on with the high resolution earth resistance geophysics survey of the far southeast of the pasture where it is hoped new light will be shed on the extent of roadside settlement to the southeast of where excavations are taking place. In Trench 17 Alessa, Julian and Nigel continued to explore the archaeology of a rectilinear geophysics anomaly identified by GPR a couple of weeks ago. So far this has revealed a horizon of large flints that today was cleaned, recorded and photographed.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure 5 Nigel, Alessa, Janet and Julian recording Trench 17<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Part of a series of bulletins from the\u00a0BAS excavations at Wickham House Follow the project on our\u00a0YouTube channel Attendees: Nigel R, Janet R, Gill, Tony, Stuart, Julian, Philip, Ben, Tess, Alessa, Paula, Jean, Kate, James P and Keith  With rain forecast for the afternoon, work in the trenches got off to a brisk start. In … Continue reading Wickham House 2026 \u2013 Day #8 Blog (15th April)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upcoming-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=13573"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13802,"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13573\/revisions\/13802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}