{"id":13626,"date":"2026-04-24T13:39:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/?p=13626"},"modified":"2026-05-14T09:00:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:00:37","slug":"wickham-house-2026-day-11-blog-22nd-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/wickham-house-2026-day-11-blog-22nd-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Wickham House 2026 \u2013 Day #11 Blog (22nd 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\u00a0YouTube channel<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attendees:<\/strong> Stuart, Julian, Lindsey, Philip, Ben, Doug, Mark, Sofia, Nigel B, Nigel S, Emily, Tim L, James P, Thalia, Carrollanne, Jean and Keith <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Trench 15 Tim L and James focused on bringing the plan up to date, whilst Jean and Sofia continued to excavate the slot at the north of the trench to see if the northerly extent of the lane (predicted to be visible by the geophys) could be revealed. Jean quickly discovered a small fragment of the rim of a fine Roman glass vessel which was very much the \u201cfind of the day\u201d and will be of much interest to our glass specialist\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure 1. Jean and Sofia excavating in Trench 15, where this glass rim was discovered<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Figure 2. James P and Tim recording the archaeology discovered at the other end of Trench 15<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In Trench 16 Stuart and Lindsey started work to excavate a slot across the dark deposit at the south of the masonry wall to investigate whether this could be an area of burning. The objective of this slot is to test whether this masonry structure could be a flue of a possible corn drier or furnace? Also in Trench 16 Emily excavated and recorded a posthole, whilst Ben, Nigel B, Mark and Doug opened a new area of the trench over another anomaly identified by the Ground Penetrating Radar geophysics survey in the first week of the excavation which it is hoped will provide further clues to the function of the features exposed to date in this area of the site\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure3. Work underway in Trench 16\u2026<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Figure 4. Lindsey excavating a slot across the dark deposit in Trench 16<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In Trench 17 much of the day was also spent recording a detail plan of the deposit of large flints, pottery and bone revealed earlier in the week, completing context sheets and photographing. However Thalia\u2019s and Julian\u2019s patience was rewarded with the discovered of a radiate coin as shown in Figure 5.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure 5. Julian and Thalia updating the Trench 17 records<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The geophysics survey to the southeast of the excavation continued with Philip, Carrollanne, Nigel S, Nigel B and Mark with a respectable eleven new grid squares being added during the course of the day. The survey image now shows clear evidence of rectilinear structures along the Roman road in this area demonstrating the extent of the roadside settlement.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure 6. Mark, Philip and Nigel S surveying across the Roman road to the southeast of the site<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Figure 7. The emerging earth resistance survey image to the southeast of the excavation area<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Part of a series of bulletins from the\u00a0BAS excavations at Wickham House Follow the project on our\u00a0YouTube channel Attendees: Stuart, Julian, Lindsey, Philip, Ben, Doug, Mark, Sofia, Nigel B, Nigel S, Emily, Tim L, James P, Thalia, Carrollanne, Jean and Keith  In Trench 15 Tim L and James focused on bringing the plan up to … Continue reading Wickham House 2026 \u2013 Day #11 Blog (22nd 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-13626","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\/13626","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=13626"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13800,"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13626\/revisions\/13800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}