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Archaeological Intervention at The Hollies 1 Bove Town Glastonbury |
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6.0 The Archaeological Excavation - Methods (see figure 8)
6.1 The archaeological excavation investigated those areas within the footprints of the new houses, and those footprints determined the archaeological excavation areas. The proposed arrangement of the new houses and garages resulted in a series of discrete excavation areas, with large baulks of undisturbed ground between the new buildings/excavation areas left undisturbed (see figure 8).
6.2 An excavating machine was used to remove the thick deposit of cultivated, garden soil that covered the site. The depth of this deposit had been determined during the earlier evaluation excavation. The machined spoil was heaped above those parts of the site that were to be left undisturbed.
The machining operation was continuously monitored with pottery sherds and artifacts recovered from the cultivated soil collected as unstratified finds.
6.3 Excavation and recording methods were compatible with the guidelines laid down in the booklet General Specifications for Archaeological Works in Somerset issued by The Archaeology Section of the Environment and Property Department, Somerset County Council.
• When archaeological features or deposits were encountered they were cleaned, photographed (using colour slides, colour prints and black and white prints) and planned at a scale of 1:20. Sections and profiles were drawn at a scale of 1:10 or 1:20 as appropriate. The entire site was planned at 1:20 and this is where the post-medieval and modern features are recorded.
• A policy of total excavation was applied, except for linear features which were excavated in sections along their lengths, and pits, which were half-sectioned.
• Levels were taken throughout of all archaeological deposits and features and related to Ordnance Datum.
• A single-context recording system was employed and recorded on pro-forma sheets. Contexts were accorded the site code GBT05 and numbered sequentially with the initial number being the number of the excavation trench or area. Five trenches were opened in the 2004evaluation, so the two excavation areas were numbered areas 6 and 7; the context numbers for Area 6 started with ‘GBT05 601’ and continued from there.
• A policy of total finds collection was applied throughout, except for post-medieval earthenwares and factory-produced wares, which were collected and recorded before being discarded. All bone was retained. Finds were bagged by context; finds from machining or spoil were called ‘U/S’ to signify that they are unstratified. Finds and artefacts were then marked with the Somerset County Museum Accession Number: TTNCM 18/2004 plus the appropriate context number plus the site code GBT05.
• A metal detector was employed to scan the surface of archaeological features and deposits and to examine the spoil heaps.
• The excavation archive, including the context sheets, site notebook, levels sheets and photographs, will be deposited in the Somerset Records Office, Taunton and the finds will be deposited in the Somerset County Museum, Taunton.
6.4 Phasing see Appendices
The above plan of all archaeological features (omitting post-medieval and modern features) reveals a complicated tangle of features from a range of phases which proved difficult to disentangle. Problems of phasing were exacerbated by the recognition of two aceramic post-Roman phases in evaluation Trench 1, and in Area 7.
Phasing of the features relied upon the matrices reproduced in the appendix. Once the stratigraphic relationships between contexts were established, they were arranged in phases according to the dateable finds in their fills; this method was less useful in the case of the two aceramic phases, however.
The results of the excavation are presented by phase in sequence from earliest to latest (the post-medieval to modern phase is omitted). |
| Author: |
C Hollinrake
Nancy Hollinrake
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| Publisher: |
Hollinrake Archaeology Cooperative
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| Year of Publication: |
2005
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Glastonbury |
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Somerset |
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England |
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Mendip |
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Grid Reference: 350269, 139069 (Easting, Northing)
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hollinra1-503160 |
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This report was uploaded to the OASIS system by the named Publisher. The report has been transferred into the ADS Library for public access and to facilitate future research.
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24 Aug 2022 |
