Shardeloes, Newgate Street, Cottingham
TA 0494 3267; (Robin Taylor-Wilson and Alan Telford); evaluation; 19th -23rd February 2001; COT01
Four trenches were investigated and natural sub-stratum was encountered in the base of all four. In each case it consisted of fine to medium gravels, with occasional pockets and lenses of sandy clay. The level of the natural gravels varied between c. 5.16m AOD in Trench 4 to an average of c. 4.80m AOD in Trenches 1, 2 and 3.
The earliest archaeological evidence recorded on the site comprised a truncated probable medieval soil horizon, a handful of medieval pottery sherds, these being dated broadly to the 12th-15th centuries, and a truncated gully. The vast majority of the deposits and features encountered at the site derived from late post-medieval and modern activity within the garden of Shardeloes.
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