| Context Number | 121 |
| Type | Fill |
| Dating | |
| Description | The sole fill of feature 120, this was a mid brown (7.5 YR 4/2) fairly compact soil. There were frequent charcoal inclusions and small rounded pebbles. Some small pieces of slag |
| Comment |
| Context Number | 122 |
| Type | Layer |
| Dating | |
| Description | A very clean, homogenous, soft buff clay-silt. This contained many vertical streaks of orange, pencil thick and round in plan (rootlets?) of which many more were in the upper transition zone. This started at an orange layer, fairly level, at 68.95 OD, up for c 350mm blending into brown soil with flecks of charcoal. Lower 30mm contained many fragments of twigs and branches, slag, one brick, one sherd of pottery. Resting on surface of 80. |
| Comment | Equivalent to 73 but no charcoal at all. This was later than the timber structure 80. Phase 4 alluviation, with slag and charcoal mixed in from the Phase 3 layer below (80). |
| Context Number | 123 |
| Type | Layer |
| Dating | medieval |
| Description | Mid brown friable clay loam lying below 35, and sealing top fill 117 of ditch segment 115 of ditch 164. |
| Comment |
| Context Number | 124 |
| Type | Layer |
| Dating | Romano-British? |
| Description | Similar to 122 but greyer and darker. Surface approximately level with top of timber structure 91. The surface and upper part of interior was a mesh of branches very roughly parallel with, or at right angles to, structure 91. Surface had traces of 80 and is contiguous with that of 80. |
| Comment |
| Context Number | 125 |
| Type | Layer |
| Dating | Romano-British? |
| Description | This was that part of 124 immediately beneath timber structure 92 and extending a few centimetres either side. It contained a mesh of branches laid fairly exactly parallel to, but with a few at 90° to, structure 91. It was c 100mm thick with embedded woodwork. Underneath was a fairly wood-free ‘bank’ (beneath and parallel to 91) of grey gravel-in-clay. Surfaced by red sand, 86, from the north-east feathering out under north-west end of 91. Bounded to the south-east by a layer of black brittle glassy slag wedged into woodwork and by two stakes. There were two more angled stakes in the interior. Under structure 91, within 125, were football to cricket ball lumps of black brittle glassy slag closely hedged in by wood. The equivalent deposit south-east of 91 contained flecks of charcoal but this, 125, did not. |
| Comment |
| Context Number | 126 |
| Type | Layer |
| Dating | Romano-British? |
| Description | This was composed of layers of sand, red gravel and clay. There was some wood in the form of small branches. There were lumps of black slag in 126 but these were probably actually the surface of 127. There was a brick on the surface of 126 which was actually in the bottom of 124, just beyond 91 to the north-west. |
| Comment | Merged with 127 and therefore probably contemporary. |
| Context Number | 127 |
| Type | Layer |
| Dating | |
| Description | A spread beneath, and well to the north-west of, 91. There was much black slag with gravel and charcoal. Very little wood. South-east of 91 it rapidly feathered down and blended with overlying deposits. Below south-east edge of 91 a was a pair of horns, separate but laid exactly one above the other. |
| Comment | Merged with 126 and therefore probably contemporary. |
| Context Number | 128 |
| Type | Layer |
| Dating | |
| Description | Grey-buff clay/silt including several layers of fine black material. |
| Comment |
| Context Number | 129 |
| Type | Ditch |
| Dating | |
| Description | Ditch running north to south with segments 77, 168, 183 and 195. |
| Comment |
| Context Number | 130 |
| Type | Flag |
| Dating | medieval |
| Description | A single broken flagstone immediately adjacent to, and to the east of, wall 95. Lying between wall and segment 187 of ditch 164. |
| Comment | The position of this flat slab suggests that it was part of a more extensive surface. |
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