| Entry: | Excavator's log, someday.
After removing loads and loads of soil the past days, it seems to me as if I haven't done anything today. I had only 9 and a half buckets à 10l. It was spoil from scraping and leveling, going down 3 more centimeters here and three more centimeters down there. Afterwards I actually only sprayed the surface and started drawing it, but all this cleaning and trying to level this planum took quite some time and the pumpa needed to be fixed, so that I started the drawing well after breakfast. I'm not done yet, but after a discussion with the boss and the trenchmaster things seem clearer to me, so it shouldn't take too long anymore. Still there are a few questions, that I hope to find answers to tomorrow:
I don't really know why someone should plaster a short side of a wall (as it seems to be the case here), but if he had a corner inside the house and he was also using the long wall... But still I don't know, as we have a double wall here, what happened with the part inbetween the two walls? Was the gap closed somehow? At the moment we can't trace the "fill" to the plaster line - so this might have happened, but it would be nice to get some evidence for the closing of the gap at one point. Hm. I hope I'm not missing some very obvious explanation.
Also I'd like to check in the field tomorrow if the two walls were completely parallel to each other. As the fill isn't running in a straight line, giving the edge of at least one wall a very uneven look, I was wondering whether the house was build this way or whether some later forces had an impact and formed this wavy line. If the walls were very parallel, I'd say some later force (sedementary pressure or something?) was responsible for the wavy wall - I cannot imagine a builder of a house matching the neighbors wavy wall line exactly to produce a gap of seven centimeters everywhere.
It's annoying that a lot of things I wonder about are best addressed in the field, but there I don't think of them.
I want to have a look at these mortar lines in the planum, if they do this weird wave because I'm not able to get a really flat and level surface or whether - maybe - something interesting is behind it (probably not, but worth a look).
By now I'm rather convinced by JMR's idea, that we are cutting a bit of a new room - the walls don't run parallel with the edges of our trench (how dare they!) and so we have like a very slim window in this room of another building - nicely framed by a plaster line.
The disturbances by animals are annoying and also the difference in wetness of the soil - the eastern part is much drier than the western part as it was nearer to the surface and therefore the soil colour and texture change a bit.
The situation is not yet completely clear - how the buttress 5052 connects to 3327 should be the question tomorrow, as this interesting point is not excavated yet. This will be included in the drawing and the unit, so both can be - hopefully - finished tomorrow.
I at least are "finished" already. ;-P
SCS out. |
