Cornerstone, Halifax, West Yorkshire: Archaeological Mitigation Report
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Wessex Archaeology was commissioned by Mouchel Advisory and Project Services on behalf of the Square Chapel Centre for the Arts (hereafter 'the Client') to undertake mitigation works in the form of a strip and record at the Square Chapel, Halifax, West Yorkshire. This phase of excavation has facilitated osteological recording of 122 skeletons from Halifax dating from around 1772 until at least 1885. This evidence adds to an existing corpus of 203 skeletons excavated in 2014 (Williams 2016). The skeletons recovered from the Square Chapel represent a reasonably healthy population with low rates of osteoarthritis, infection and metabolic disease, who are likely to have avoided the worst overcrowding of the period. High rates of sinusitis and pulmonary conditions (and a possible case of tuberculoid meningitis) may have been promoted by air pollution. Rates for all dental pathologies among the adults were higher than the averages for the period. Rates of ante-mortem tooth loss were particularly high. A diet rich in sugar and other cariogenic foods combined with poor oral hygiene is likely. Trauma and degenerative joint disease were common among the adults from this group. Two families were traced using information from depositum plates. The contrasting lives of these two families highlight both the inequalities of the industrial revolution and the egalitarian nature of religious practice of the period, particularly of non-conformism. The foundations of the early 19th century former sunday school were also recorded.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.065 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".