Cut of sub-circular pit. Before excavation began, this feature had all the hallmarks of being a grave, cut into platform F1502, plaster surface (10408) with the cut clearly visible, and defined by a scrappy plaster fill top fill (10414). However, this feature contained only very few fragments of bone, within a back fill deposit, suggesting that if this was a grave, then it had been removed and the cut cleaned.
Another possible explanation could be a basin. Deposit (10416), a strange lumpy clay layer, hints at water being present (in the very least present at its deposition) but is by no means conclusive. Even afetr excavation the excavator is still uncertain and undecided as to what it is/represents. For all intents and purposes, it is just a hole, cut through a plaster surface, backfilled with debris and detritus, with the odd layer of scrappy plaster to level things up. |
