| Entry: | It has been a while since my last entry (as usual - tsk tsk), but esssentially we have in the intervening time, completely excavated Space 328, Building 75. The oven F2637 was almost the last thing to go, having been sat on a make-up layer which was also overspill from the fill of the southern walls construction cut. To the north of this oven was another small neonate burial, it was unclear whether this was associated with the oven directly but it was definitely cutting the construction level for the oven or one of its primary external floors. I also found a rounded shallow cut under the oven superstructure and primary make-up for the oven floor, approximately where the later 'rake-out' pit was located (but definitely a different feature. This cut resembled one of the firespots, although there was less obvious in situ scorching than one might expect in one of these. I did wonder if this might be an early hearth, pre-dating the oven.
As the last of the deposits were removed and the walls have been recorded and dismantled it has struck me in the last few days that despite being truncated in most possible directions and having few 'formal floors' (ie. Plastered floors), this building is a little more interesting that it looks.
In particular the various clusters of obsidian debitage (in the northeast corner of Space 328 and in the possibly related Space 332 to the south) along with the cache of fint 'drill points' found in one of the floor/make-up layers (16565) to the north of the space, suggests that a lot might have been going on here with regard to stone working - Roddy insists we are in the stone quarter, and I wonder if the this might suggest a specialist workshop - food for thought. |
