| | Area: South | | | | Dug in Year: 1996 | | Feature Type: opening | | | | Location: gap between spaces 107 & 108 | | | | Grid X: 911.4 Grid Y: 976.25 | | | A 'doorway' between spaces 107 / 108. The top has gone, so original height is unknown. This is a broad gap, lined on each side with plaster [1509], [1510]. There is no reason to doubt that the wall either side is a single build / phase. The base is unclar due to later activity, but the floors of space 107 appear to lip up and peak c. 1/3 (or more) of the way though the gap, dropping down as a step on the W side for entry into space 107. When the gap was blocked, these floors/steps were cut [1519] to hold a make-up layer on which blocking wall 50 was built, & the preise shape of the floor of the gap is unknown.. It appears to dip at the N & S edges, which is unusual as generally floors seem to build up at edges rather than in the centre.
Discussion:
Mellaart says doorways don't exist except in the upper few levels - only crawlholes.
The plaster floors 1084 were made in one build with wall plaster 1503 at the S end of gap, though the poor state of wall plaster 1510 makes it impossible to say for certain that 1510 & 1503 were done together - though I'd say they were.
The 'gap' seems to have been planned in the original building of wall 51, in the lowest construction courses. | | | | In situ Conservation: No | | Lifted: No | | | | Feature Relationships: | | below: (Click to view the record) 50 | | | | Number of Related Diary Entries: 0 | | Conservation Recorded: No | Buildings: (Click to view the record)
| Spaces: (Click to view the record)
| | No. Of Units in this Feature: 2 (Click here to view unit list) |
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