A quick thank you from Mike Pinner to those who took part in the test pitting at Friston field on the weekend of 25th & 26th June.
It was windy but no rain and good to get out in the field again.
One test pit was a dud (as Franz digs to an appreciative audience above) – that’s archaeology – but the other one amply rewarded efforts and helped us with our forward planning for this summer.
One 1x1m test pit was opened up on the walk near the road and produced..nothing. I heard it called the worst TP that CRP have ever dug (!!) and was pretty barren except for a damp sandy clay which we don’t seem to have encountered before.
The other 1x1m test pit was on a ride which appears to have building remains. It was pretty dead until around 70cm where Roman pottery started to turn up in abundance- quite a lot for 1m square. This context seems to extend to around 1.6m above natural sand. There is a piece of tile with an animal footprint- Roger thinks it may be pine martin- and the pottery is certainly early- rather than late- Roman. A piece of IA pottery was recovered from just above the natural – and the team think they’ve identified two sherds of Saxon from the context above the Roman layer. So all of that is pretty satisfying and tells us that we aren’t into modern post blitz material there. But it is deep…
Thanks as ever to Daniel and Chris at High Ash for their continuing support
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