{"id":13907,"date":"2026-05-30T08:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T07:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/?p=13907"},"modified":"2026-05-30T08:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T07:32:14","slug":"wickham-house-2026-day-27-blog-28th-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/05\/wickham-house-2026-day-27-blog-28th-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Wickham House 2026 \u2013 Day #27 Blog (28th May)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

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

Attendees:<\/strong> Joanne, Katharine, Sam, Zoe, Stuart, Millie, Doug, Chloe, James P, Martin, Peter Cl, Kate, Claire, Susanne, Eric, Geoff, Dee, Ben A and Keith <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet ANOTHER hot day on site \u2013 but once again, we hunkered down beneath gazebos\/trees so work could continue! Next week is forecast to be decidedly damp by comparison, so we may need to find our waterproofs and wellies\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Trench 17 Chloe, Dee, Doug, Joanne and Zoe spent the morning learning how to accurately draw scale stratigraphic sections of the deposits revealed during the course of the excavation. This process of recording will continue next week for three faces of this trench, and will be used together with the material culture, pottery and bone discovered to characterise occupation of this site during the Roman period.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure 1. Chloe and Joanne learning how to draw sections in Trench 17<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In Trench 18 Susanne, Eric and Claire completed the recording of the 50% slot dug along this trench and opening new context records for the new features identified beneath. The wetter weather forecast for next week will help to soften the silty\/clay material exposed which was heavy going during this week\u2019s hot and dry conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure 2. Susanne and Eric recording the 50% slot along Trench 18<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In Trench 15 Sam and Katharine discovered a new context of large sarsen rubble within the slot being excavated at the north end of the trench, which when recorded and removed revealed two distinct contexts beneath. Excavation of this slot will be extended to the east next week to identify the archaeological feature beneath these layers of flint\/sarsen where the southerly remains of Building #3 (discovered in 2025) are expected to be found.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure 3. Left \u2013 a stoney context revealed by Sam\/Katharin Right \u2013 two new contexts discovered beneath\u2026<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Figure 4. Zoe, Joanne, Martin, Sam and Katharine recording new contexts in Trench 15<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Elsewhere in Trench 15 Peter, Martin and Ben were excavating flint\/cobble surfaces closer to the ditch of the Roman road\/lane, where Peter discovered a Roman As coin. It is hoped that this coin can be accurately dated next week when Lindsey is back on site with us, but initial comparisons suggest a possible 2nd<\/sup> Century AD date<\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure 5. Peter with his first Roman coin find!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

In Trench 16, work continued to define the features of the masonry flue, and to clean the newly revealed surfaces around it. Despite the dry conditions a number of possible post holes\/pits were identified that will be investigated further next week when the damper conditions are likely to allow clearer delineation of these features.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure 6. Millie, Zoe and Kate detailing features in Trench 16<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Figure 7. A new chalk deposit revealed by Kate in Trench 16<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Stuart very kindly produced a 3D photogrammetry model using his Poly Cam app of Trench 16, which you can see in 3D on your phone\/computer by following the link below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/poly.cam\/capture\/29f23077-2708-47df-8229-3d917ea9817c<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Figure 8. A snapshot of the 3D photogrammetry model of Trench 16 created by Stuart<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Part of a series of bulletins from the BAS excavations at Wickham House Follow the project on our YouTube channel Attendees: Joanne, Katharine, Sam, Zoe, Stuart, Millie, Doug, Chloe, James P, Martin, Peter Cl, Kate, Claire, Susanne, Eric, Geoff, Dee, Ben A and Keith  Yet ANOTHER hot day on site \u2013 but once again, we hunkered down … Continue reading Wickham House 2026 \u2013 Day #27 Blog (28th May)<\/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-13907","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\/13907","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=13907"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13921,"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13907\/revisions\/13921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berksarch.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}