5th August: We know from the Ground Penetrating Radar survey that discovered the two large anomalies in the trench (our pits) that there is another much, much smaller anomaly lying beneath one edge of our pile. So we want to know what this is and how it relates to our pits. We don’t have the answer yet but we’ve been working our way through the pile and in the next couple of days we hope to have the solution.
Where did it come from? Well its hard to be totally sure just yet but there’s some blocky chalky material in it which may have come from pit digging.
But our pile holds many secrets and possibly the biggest surprise was the large lumps of chalk cob that we’ve found close to its base. This material is similar to that which Mike (Parker Pearson) found when he and the Stonehenge Riverside team were excavating the Neolithic house. Around the base of house 851 and also its outhouse there was a ‘collar’ or foundation layer of chalk cob at the bottom of the walls. Its a traditional building material used for making walls that you’ll see across Wiltshire even today.
But what is it doing at the bottom of our pile? At the moment the working theory is that it may have come from a house that was sitting on what was due to become the henge ditch which was demolished to make way for the henge and some of the material dumped here.
More at
https://ntarchaeostonehengeaveburywhs.wordpress.com/2016/08/05/durrington-dig-2016-friday-5-august/
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