Despite the terrible conditions our valiant volunteers managed to do some sterling work on the E-W ditch yesterday. We are nearly done digging the sections through the fill and then recording can be undertaken. Drawings and photos can be created and levels taken. Some more pottery was unearthed and these will allow us to date the feature, but I would be surprised if they were not medieval.
The theory at the moment is that this ditch was created to produce enough earth to build up the ground so that houses could be constructed above the wet surrounding landscape.
The geophysics shows that a S-N ditch butts up to the E-W ditch (the darker thick lines) and the houses would have been constructed in the lower left and lower right of this image. Like the rest of the DMV to the East they would have faced the holloway to the south. The area to the North is very boggy and it would probably have been so in the medieval period too.
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