A human skeleton was encountered in fill 234, the fifith original fill from the base. Skeleton 1 has been identified as a prime-aged adult woman, approximately forty years old, with some pathological changes to her skeleton indicating a life of hard physical work. The position of the skeleton was not commensurate with formal burial: no grave cut was seen, and although the body was extended, it was prone and on on the east-to-west alignment typical of Christian burials. It is possible that the woman's body was concleared or summarily disposed of, rather than buried, in the partially silted ditch although there were no skeletal indications that she had met a violent end; a death by misadventure also seems possible. Skeleton 1 was radiocarbon-dated to mid- to late 1st century AD. (1)
See MNT 26980 for channel feature.

<1> Pre-Construct Archaeology, 2016, Proposed Redevelopment at Platts Orchard, 39 Church Street, Southwell, Nottinghamshire, p. 7 (Unpublished document). SNT4706.