Interpretation
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- Mouth of cistern - well head. Not excavated.
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- Frances Parton
- 21-7-2008
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- Modern well head, sitting on the rubble and destruction of a structure, and sitting on top of an earlier well head of the middle ages. Excavated the 18 Jun 09.
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- Caroline Goodson
- 18-6-2009
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- upper courses of the well head.
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- Caroline Goodson
- 18-4-2011
Stratigraphic Relationships
- No Linked Records
- No Linked Records
Description
- Bonded circular structure at the mouth of the cistern near the northern L.O.E. in Room 3, Building 1.
- alignment, mode of construction - obviously bonded
- discrete
- regular brick laying bonded by mortar
- ceramics
- diameter including wall: 110 cm; mouth diameter: 60 cm; wall width: 25 cm
- malta pozzolana omogenea
- irregular square limestone
- lower brick: 6 cm
- limescale bricks over terracotta bricks
- solid, gray-blue
- lower brick: 6 cm
- courses of limestone and mortar with intermittent courses of brick
- ring around the mouth of the cistern is not level, having been broken at time of abandonment
Basic Information
- Bonded circular structure at the mouth of the cistern near the northern L.O.E. in Room 3, Building 1.
Plan
Record Details
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- Lisa Fentress
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- Caroline Goodson
- 21-7-2008
- Caroline Goodson
- 24-6-2008