The unearthed wall was defined within a trench TPC.A that was opened within the framework of research aiming to examine the outlines of as well as the relationship between the buildings of the upper levels exposed during the 1960’s excavation seasons. It is believed to be a southern wall of building A.III.2 that was presented on Mellaart’s plans of Level III.
The wall was heavily disturbed by roots and animals and its upper courses of bricks were removed within an arbitrary layer (30400). The uncovered section and plan of the lower part of the wall made the following observations possible: The feature seems to be a half-brick thick wall (the northern face of the wall is disturbed, which makes it difficult to reconstruct the original width) and is situated on west-east alignment. It is made up of hard, light grey - mid brown mud-bricks with a dominant silt content. The difference between the bricks and the mortar is almost impossible to record as both elements seem to have the same physical characteristics. Bearing all this in mind very little can be said about the original dimensions of the bricks.
The wall was erected next to northern face (F.7452) of, what is believed to be, an earlier building A.III.3. |
