St. Mary's Church Watford, Herts: Interim Archaeological Report
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Abstract
In response to the requirements of the diocesan faculty, the Heritage Network has been commisioned by Watford Parochial Church Council to carry out a programme of archaeological investigation in advance of a proposal to install under-floor heating in the tower, nave and aisles of St. Mary's Church, Watford. The evaluation conducted by the Heritage Network successfully located and identified the brick vaulted structures anticipated from the GPR survey in Test Pits 6 and 7. The vaults were sealed but it is considered to be highly likely that burials will be present within them. Disarticulated human bone and iron nails uncovered in Test Pit 7 may indicate the presence of other nearby burials. Test Pit 1, which was located inside the west tower, revealed a flint wall foundation aligned north-south [101], confirming the results of the GPR survey which indicated the possible presence of structural remains or debris in this area. It is possible that this wall represents the foundations of an earlier western tower. Test Pits 4, 9 and 10 were targeted on GPR anomalies which had been interpreted as possible burials. Test Pit 4 contained a Victorian brick duct [401] which appears to be associated with an earlier heating system. Test Pit 9 revealed a chalk make up layer [901] which may form part of a medieval or post-medieval floor. Test Pit 10 was sited between a substantial grave and the wall of the south aisle, exhibiting its foundations [1001]. These were formed of flint rubble, of a similar nature to the footings seen in Test Pit 1. Investigation beneath the grave slab revealed a make-up layer including modern brick, suggesting that the slab had been relaid in recent times, but no evidence of burials was uncovered.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.047 | 0.006 |
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".