This week we’ve had Archaeology South-East at Shorne to take a look at the fish ponds associated with Randall Manor.
They’ve taken core samples, to a depth of 120cm, of the separate ponds and will report back to us with findings. Hopefully there will be some clues to help us date the structures.
Update (8/11/2024) : The banks were extremely tough to auger through, but we ended up with six samples taken away for further analysis. The top pond had two metres of ‘suspended sediment’ over a metre of alluvial deposit – that we did not bottom…so when you visualise Randall Manor, imagine the top round pond having 3m + of water in it? This could mean that larger fish were being bred in the pond? All fascinating stuff.
