| | Area: North | | | | Dug in Year: 2004 | | Feature Type: wall | | | | Location: the feature forms the S boundary of sp. 243 | | | F. 1453 was defined as a wall at the beginning of the excavation, while cleaning the top soil layer. However, we are not able to define it properly, because we did not excavated the fill of sp. 243 (U. 8894). But we removed a layer to the S of F. 1453 ca. 30-50 cm thick (U. 8876, 8892) and released the S face of the wall. It seems that it is a double wall, consisting of S wall and N wall (but it was given one F number because we are not certain about it).
It seems that the S part/wall is quite shallow - it consists of 2(3) courses of mudbricks - the first course consists of light brown crumbly mudbricks (made of finer clay with lower amount of sand) and the second one (lower) is made of yellowish-brown mudbricks (made of sandy clay).It is not clear whether this difference is a result of 2 different construction periods/phases or different types of bricks were used for some reason for the construction of the wall.
The N part of F. 1453 once had a plastered face (the interior face) and traces of plaster are still visible at the SW corner of the sp. 243 (the plaster was not given an U number(. The plaster is ca. 2 cm thick and consists of fine white clay.
If F. 1453 really consists of 2 walls, the S one is probably a later one, aimed at supporting the N one - the real wall of sp. 243. This suggestion seems to be supported by the fact that the S part of F. 1453 sits on top of midden and is shallower than the N one.
F. 1453 runs from W to E and slopes down from W to E (from 1012.14 to 1011.77). There are traces of white clay/plaster on top of it (the central part) and traces of light gray brick in the easternmost top part (see the plan).
The easternmost part of F. 1453 (where it is supposed to bond F. 1461) was cut by U. 8881, 8886 and 8889. For that reason the relation between F. 1453 and F. 1461 remains uncertain. | | | | In situ Conservation: No | | Lifted: No | | | | Feature Relationships: | | cut by: (Click to view the record) 1455 | | | | Number of Related Diary Entries: 1 | | | | Conservation Recorded: No | Buildings:
none | Spaces: (Click to view the record)
| | No. Of Units in this Feature: 2 (Click here to view unit list) |
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