Test Pits

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Orientation Location Depth Finds Comments
1 N-S
(1m x .5m)
In cultivated bed in kitchen garden

35cm

Modern material Cultivation layers only
2 N-S
(1m x 1m)

15cm

none Modern boiler slag over chalk lump, used to create a trackway running from west to east across field, lined at edge with flint pebbles
3

N-S
(1m x .5m)

10cm

Boiler waste and burnt material – fused pottery, metal, glass and slag Test pit encountered a field drain and rabbit burrow. Compacted chalk and boiler waste trackway.
4

N-S
(1m x .5m)

30cm

Victorian domestic pottery, misc. brick and tile, plastic, nails, 2 x worked flint (not retained) Cultivated soil to depth of 30cm, onto disturbed clay, containing charcoal, cinder, metal ceramic.
5

N-S
(1m x .5m)

25cm

No finds

Charcoal, bone, pottery

Nails, clay pipe stem, medieval potsherds x 4

To 10cm deep cultivation and topsoil

10cm to 20cm soil and clay

20cm to 25cm disturbed clay

6 N-S
(1m x .5m)

10cm

No finds 3cm topsoil, then natural clay with root disturbance. In-situ flints suggest no plough wear
7 N-S

30cm

brick, tile, chalk lump

charcoal, brick, Victorian pottery

topsoil

clay layer disturbed

8

N-S
(1m x .5m)

43cm

Chalk lump, charcoal, post Medieval brick, but very few finds Appears to be a filled in pond

Barcombe archaeology 2003-2006

Field Walking and Historical Environment Records

Test-pits

Woodland survey