burial, 140 Photos

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Burial (2120) Context (2104) Burial (2106) Context (1930) The far North East end of site Zone 4 Far East end of site Context (1930) Remains of heavily truncated skeleton (1918) Anies defining the cut of tomb foundation (1839) Anies & Tomasz and tomb burial (1839) (1812) GeoPhoto Burial (1812) Burial 1810 (legs only) Burial (1810) Inhumation (1751) Grave cut [1750] Context (1747) Grave cut [1734] Cremation urn (1745) Grave cut [1727] Adrian excavating grave cut [1727] Liz planning grave cut [1720] Grave cut [1720] Fergal posing with his shovel Adrian and Liz Large pit Large pit Greg Skeleton (1723) Skull of (1723) Skull & vertebrae of (1723) Skeleton (1723) Skeleton (1723) Skeleton (1723) excavated by Ruth Flexed prone skeleton (1723) Skeleton (1733), excavated by Will & Tomasz Skeleton (1733) with votive Samian vase (1736) at feet Grave cut [1711] of Ruth's skeleton (1723) Disarticulated skeleton (1728), excavated by Adrian Skeleton (1728) (1719) geophoto Skeleton (1719) Adrian's grave cut (1727) Will & Tomasz excavating (1733) Adrian excavating skeleton (1728) Liz recording grave cut (1720) Ruth, Tomasz and Will recording Context (1720) Anies & Adrian looking for a grave cut Fergal and (1698) Fergal doesn't want to leave Ruth's skeleton Across site looking North East Working shot looking North Ruth, Will and Fergal at work A somewhat busy corner of site Ruth, Will and Fergal Ruth working on the ribs Ruth excavating skeleton Votive (?) vessel (1707) (1666) Skeleton (1708) Skeleton (1708) Ruth and skeleton Dave and skeleton (1708) Liz and skeleton Ceri and skeleton (L - R) David, Skeleton (1698) Fergal and Anies Anies interviews Fergal for a future feature Ruth doing a spot of trowelling Fergal's skeleton (1698) (1698) geophoto Skull of (1698) Skeleton (1698) Fergal excavating the pelvic area of (1698) Close up of (1698) Ruth & Will packing up skeleton (1665) Skeleton (1698) Fergal excavating skeleton (1698) (1665) geophoto Skeleton (1665) Skeleton (1665) from above Fergal excavating a grave Tomasz digging grave cut of 1668, with Dave's cremation pit (1675) in foreground Jon & Ruth Cremation (1675) Tomasz and 1668 Tomasz Will cleaning the top of a skeleton 1665 Tomasz working on a skeleton - no context number yet Tomasz, our newest member of staff (1617) geophoto [1271] being geophotographed [1271] a large pit with three skulls at the west end [1275] ready to be geophotographed Context [1275] a heavily truncated but well preserved inhumation Adrian working on [1275] Will Clarke, our newest member of staff Adrian working on [1275] Adrian working on [1275] Liz Liz excavating a cremation burial Cremation burial (1051) being excavated by Paula Paula's cremation (1051) ready for its geo-photo Close up of Paula's cremation (1051) Lukasz at work David sampling a possible cremation Site shot west south west The site office The side of my head Inhumation (1083) with the head resting on a tile Inhumation (1083) (1083) Ashley working on (1083) Tom's poorly preserved Roman burial with only long bones present Gary's inhumation waiting to be geo-photographed Votive deposit (1083) with flagon and black burnished platter Liz's inhumation (1006) Lukasz's inhumation (1032) with pot at feet David's cremation (1087) see journal for further details Paula's cremation (1051) David's cremation (1087) Liz excavating skeleton (1006) Łukasz excavating Roman skeleton (1032) An upended cremation urn Paula and her cremation burial. Liz grinning with joy at her most interesting discovery at Prescot Street so far Cremation urn (961) being excavated expertly by the Cheese Greg working on the cremation urn (961) Cremation urn (961) Covered disturbed cremation truncated by a soakaway Excavating an area with disturbed cremation urns Roman Burial (870) Roman Burial (870) Roman Burial (868)

First images of the first burials on site being excavated by the Cheese. As well as some other interesting working shots of post-Medieval stuff – including a sherd of imported pottery that may have an exotic provenance possibly a sherd of Spanish paterna blue pottery from Valencia – late 15th/early 16th century. Maybe.