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Wall (1043) 
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Wall (1054) 
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Trench D \. i: Drains Trench B 
Fig. 1 Extent of Works 
historic buildings (1989) was able to describe the 
West Barn only as ‘the ruins of another medieval 
farm building, probably a byre’. 
RESULTS 
Stratigraphic Data 
Excluding wholly modern concrete surfaces and 
associated disturbances, seven stratigraphically dis- 
tinct phases of deposit were revealed in the main 
excavations and service trenches, with contiguous 
deposits extending between them. The stratigraphic 
relationships are illustrated on Figure 4. 
Phase 1 
Brickearth subsoil (1038) was revealed at the base of 
most excavations and, in Trench C, was sealed by a 
localised remnant of a grey silty loam ‘A’ horizon 
topsoil (1037). 
Phase 2. 
The stratigraphically lowest structural deposits 
comprised wall (1043) and wall (0005/1018), though 
no direct stratigraphic relationship between them 
was revealed. Wall (1043) was exposed only in 
Trench D. It comprised one course of a bipartite 
wall of Oolitic limestone slabs retaining a rubble 
and clay core, its orientation corresponding 
approximately to that of the West Barn. The 
stratigraphic relationship between wall (1043) and 
limestone rubble layer (1036) to the east of it had 
been severed by a narrow modern disturbance 
[1047] that had cut down on to the top of the 
masonry skin of (1043) but without — apparently — 
disturbing it. The inclination of surviving upper 
surfaces of (1036) further to the east suggests that 
(1036) must have lain against the eastern face of 
(1043) and possibly over it. It did not extend west 
nor beneath (1043). Wall (0005/1018) forms the 
extant south-west corner of the West Barn and the 
north end of the adjoining enclosure wall. It is L- 
shaped in plan and has a fully bonded corner upon 
which rested the cruck blade recorded by Haslam 
(1984). Though fully integrated in the plan of the 
West Barn, it is structurally separate from the 
ostensibly adjoining walls (1027, 1007, 0004) with 
clear abutting joints visible in the west elevation 
and the inner face of the south elevation. Figures 3 
