LFD Introduction

The purpose of this section of the archive is to record the original LFD site notes, lists of the finds and finds notes made by Patricia Ryan. The finds correspond to three phases of work - the moat excavation, field walking and salvaging from the moat area as the topsoil was being stripped by the gravel company.

The Moat excavation was the first MAG Lofts Farm excavation trench and is described in an Interim Report published in 1978. The trench was given a designation of 'a' and excavation context numbers prefixed by LFD78a - e.g. LFD78a12. This was the only time on the Lofts Project when a trench was given a letter designation. Original moat excavation site plans seem to be missing at the time of writing - 10 February 2003

The LFD field walking only covered 300 square metres in a field measuring over 3000. Consequently we did not discover any new LFD features but did produce some interesting finds which help in the interpretation of the site as a whole.

The field was monitored as the gravel contractors removed the topsoil. A new range of context numbers was allocated starting at LFD51. This 1979 work is covered by Lofts notebook NB1.