Land West of St. John's Road, Bungay, Suffolk: Archaeological Trial Trench Evaluation
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Abstract
Eighteen trial trenches, totalling 820m, wee excavated on land west of St John's Road, Bungay, Suffolk, in advance of proposed development for housing and employment. The aim of the work was to characterize the archaeological potential of the proposed development area. The site is located on an east-facing hillside overlooking a steep-sided stream valley; the stream flows into the River Waveney just under a mile to the north. The evaluation identified two main areas of archaeological potential. On the high ground in the north-west of the site (Trenches 1-4) was an Iron Age (probably c. 350 - 50 BC) boundary ditch containing a dump of settlement waste including a large (for the period) assemblage of ironworking slag. Other features in this area, including a posthole at the end of Trench 3, add to the picture of settlement activity. In the southern half of the site (Trenches 13-18) was a broadly rectilinear system of field boundary ditches containing flint-tempered Iron Age pottery and later prehistoric (later-2nd- to 1st-millennium BC) struck flint. No archaeologically-significant deposits were identified in the central (Trenches 7-11) and north-eastern (Trenches 5-6) parts of the site. Other anomalies identified by a preceding geophysical survey were found to be either natural in origin or post-medieval field boundaries. One 'kinked' field boundary/ drainage ditch in the south-west of the site is medieval in origin. A single natural geological feature, located on a sandy knoll in the centre of the southern part of the site, contained a small but homogenous assemblage of Mesolithic struck flint, probably representing some of the debris from an episode of flint-knapping, which became accidentally incorporated into the feature. The evaluation identified two main areas of archaeological potential. On the high ground in the north-west of the site (Trenches 1-4) was an Iron Age (probably c. 350 - 50 BC) boundary ditch containing a dump of settlement waste including a large (for the period) assemblage of ironworking slag. Other features in this area, including a posthole at the end of Trench 3, add to the picture of settlement activity. In the southern half of the site (Trenches 13-18) was a broadly rectilinear system of field boundary ditches containing flint-tempered Iron Age pottery and later prehistoric (later-2nd- to 1st-millennium BC) struck flint. No archaeologically-significant deposits were identified in the central (Trenches 7-11) and north-eastern (Trenches 5-6) parts of the site. Other anomalies identified by a preceding geophysical survey were found to be either natural in origin or post-medieval field boundaries. One 'kinked' field boundary/ drainage ditch in the south-west of the site is medieval in origin. A single natural geological feature, located on a sandy knoll in the centre of the southern part of the site, contained a small but homogenous assemblage of Mesolithic struck flint, probably representing some of the debris from an episode of flint-knapping, which cvbecame accidentally incorporated into the feature.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".