Trench 12 – happy diggers look on while Katherine finishes their work for them. Supervisors! |
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Trench 12 – a compacted rubble surface at the southern end; could this be the remains of a pathway?
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Trench 11: we have finally defined the edges of the medieval ditch in this trench, cut on both sides by later features. Chris is trowelling the bottom of the ditch here, cut into sandstone bedrock. |
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Stephen is defining the edges of a wall in Trench 8 |
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This wall appears to have been reinforced or broadened at foundation level. |
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Finds from the sub-floor levels in Trench 8 |
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| In this area Jane has confirmed that the stone-lined drains were built as an integral part of the wall foundations, rather than being inserted later. This means that the drains are contemporary with the 1604 hall
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