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R. PRICE AND K. MUCKELROY: THE KENNEMERLAND
endowed. The greater part of this latter area was covered with iron concretion, sitting directly on the bed-rock and rising above the original sea-bed for most of its extent. Where it pro- truded it was rust coloured, and where buried it was black, and extremely hard. The concretion was formed by a range of iron objects, includ- ing nails and rigging thimbles. To the south of the concretion, the standard sequence of de- posits was found, but both the organic level and the underlying gravel were stained and in places solidified by impregnation with substances de- rived from the concretion. The organic level here was particularly productive of well-pre- served artefacts, especially rope (Fig. 6),boots
and shoes (Fig. 9), pottery and clay pipe frag- ments. The area of concretion on the southern margins of the site revealed a few artefacts, but its origins remain uncertain. In a couple of places the concretion contained lumps of resin, which appeared to have interacted with the concretion to form the hardest matrix encoun- tered on this site. Beyond the 14.4 m mark, the deposit changed character again, with the un- disturbed Yellow gravel being found o&' 0.2 m below the original sea-bed level, and with the
Figure 8. Area of tarred timbers, Site G. Scale with 0.2 m divisions.
Figure 9. Two shoes within the organic matte, Site G. Scale with 0.05 m divisions.
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