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| Area: South |
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| Dug in Year: 1997 |
| Feature Type: wall |
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| Location: between spaces 150 and and 151 |
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| Grid X: 915.8 Grid Y: 978.3 |
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Small piece of north-south wall in space 150/151 which along with wall F97 separates the two spaces.
1998: This stub of wall was found to have been constructed over floor deposits and therefore recognised as a later phase structure and interpreted as a narrowing to doorway 250.
Post-use of building 4 much of the flooring in space 150, through the doorway to space 151 was scoured out (some floors in space 150 removed by large pit 91). Consequently much of the floor level associated with wall 99 was destroyed particularly those to the west of wall 99. The stub of wall was initially believed to have been keyed into the southern wall 263 by use of a cut as it was constructed within a overhang in wall 263. However the overhang was then found to have been original, this overhang is actually a feature along the length of wall 263 in space 151 _only_. ( it is practically flush in space 150) and the face of wall 263 was also plastered continuous with plaster face of wall 263 in _space 151_.
Wall 99 was constructed in layers of brick aggregates - some mere large-ish brick frags, some layers were a total mix of clayey material but very compact - enough to be a support of some sort. No explanation for why bricks weren't used. However having said that, brick may not have been suitable to 'key' this together with wall 263, whereas a more malleable deposit of multiple composition may have. At the base (3125, 3174, 3180 and 3188) were patchy deposits which may also have been make-up/packing deposits which were very scrappy in nature and overlay earlier floor.
Along the southern edge of space 150 were remnants of floor, two floor surfaces represented by 3146/3145/3144 which overlay 31264/3152/3155/3151. These were only seen to be associated with wall 99 after its excavation and clearly seen as they stopped on a straight edge along the eastern edge of wall 99.
It is unclear as to why this doorway was narrowed in such a fashion. It may have had a double function, as a support buttress to wall 263 because of the relatively steep overhang. Question is why is the southern wall of space 150 vertical and the same wall in space 151 has an overhang. It may be that wall 263 in space 150 has also undergone some form of re-modelling?
On the other hand wall 99 may well simply represent a door narrowing!
Space 150 was eventually closed off by blocking doorway 250 and therefore wall 99 was abutted by 250 (2314).
the reason or necessity for blocking doorway 250 is uncertain, originally believed to have been post-use of building 4, however it may have been blocked at the time when oven 260(?) was cut through from space 151 (Excavated and recorded SF, TC Aug 1998) |
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| In situ Conservation: No |
| Lifted: Yes |
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| Feature Relationships: |
| abuts: (Click to view the record) 263 |
| contemporary with: (Click to view the record) 97, 250 |
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| Number of Related Diary Entries: 3 |
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| Conservation Recorded: No |
| Related Photos: 1 (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: 10 (Click here to view unit list) |
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