| Entry: | Today’s excavation has been a bit slow as I have been dealing with the collapsed wall in space 156 and the soil above the surface I have found in the east part of the room. I am now excavating the western part. The soil is divided up in three parts, leaving baulks between them, consisting of both the soil and the wall. I am also leaving a baulk running N to S along the length of the room. I have found the surface in the south end of the western part of the room. It’s not a proper floor with plaster, but something more like a trampled surface with bits of plaster and dark plastic lenses on and between the plaster. In the southern end on the horizontal wall (unit numbers 3239, 3240) it looks as if it rests directly on this surface. At the northern end of the wall it rests on something else. The floor/surface might not go along the whole length of the room, at least not on the same level. I disappears after 1 m at the east side, maybe it does the same at this western side. That means I don’t know what the room looked like when the wall came down, not yet anyway. Wendy will take samples to look at the relationship between the wall and the surface. It will be very interesting to know if excavation of the wall and the samples can tell us anything about what happened in the room before the wall collapsed and whether the wall was taken down deliberately or if it collapsed on its own after the room was out of use.
Comment on space tour: It is a very good idea and I think it will be a good complement to the other tours. Maybe with fewer people attending there can be an interesting discussion. Today many showed up, probably due to the novelty.Entered By: Åsa Berggren |
