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| Area: North |
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| Dug in Year: 2005 |
| Feature Type: platform |
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| Location: nw part of s94 |
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| Grid X: 1045.9 Grid Y: 1170.9 |
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Northwestern platform within space 94. Highly burnt on its north-eastern half but not so burnt on the other half. It was believed to be a floor until floor 2176 was exposed lower down.
1193 is the plaster on it (very fragile and cracked).
From 2005 Archive Report::
F.2174 is the northwestern platform of Space 94, approximately 0.15m higher than floor F.2176 and 0.3m lower than the abutting southern platform F.2177. The 1.6m square platform was built against walls F.2032 to the north and F.2106 to the west, and the plaster render (11934) was contiguous with the wall plasters. The surface of platform F.2174 appears to have been discriminately exposed to fire with only the northeastern half of it rubified and friable, while the other half was less fire exposed and similar to the heat exposure to the rest of the building and surfaces. This differential burning pattern probably occurred because of the initial collapse of an architectural structure (11937) that protected the southwestern corner of the platform from the fire. This part of the house seems to have been quite clean, the large quantity of charcoal retrieved from the floor probably being formed in the moments of initial destruction. There were three objects on the surface (11928) of F.2174 in these last moments, a very fine stone bowl and a grinder were found one next to the other, not far from a third stone tool. All these items were severely affected by the fire, which caused the bowl to crack into many fragments. |
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| In situ Conservation: Yes |
| Lifted: No |
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| Feature Relationships: |
| abuts: (Click to view the record) 2021, 2032, 2106, 2177 |
| cut by: (Click to view the record) 2172 |
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| Number of Related Diary Entries: 0 |
| Conservation Recorded: No |
| Related Photos: 9 (Opens as a group in a new window) | Buildings: (Click to view the record)
| Spaces: (Click to view the record)
| | No. Of Units in this Feature: 3 (Click here to view unit list) |
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