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Excavation
Date 1984
Event ID 1170886
Category Recording
Type Excavation
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1170886
NX 444 402 Excavations to assess the archaeological potential of the field immediately to the S of the Priory Museum revealed deep stratified deposits representing an accumulation from an Early Christian Period to the present. Four trenches (each 5m by 5m) were opened. Features revealed include slots and postholes pertaining to a multiphase timber roundhouse; paving and slots associated with B ware; a drain, graves, pits and postholes associated with E ware and Germanic glass; a vallum abutted by a midden associated with Anglian artifacts including Northumbrian coins of the 8th and 9th centuries; a waterlogged stake-walled building (possibly pre-12th century); graves, a pesthole, paving and burnt soil associated with an Anglo-Norse belt buckle of the 10th or 11th century, graves associated with Early Medieval pottery and drains, structural remains and cultivation furrows associated with Post-Medieval and recent artifacts. A full interim report has been prepared.
P Hill 1984
Sponsor: SDD(AM) - CEU
