| Entry: | Progress for today: first time I've put on a long-sleeve top in the morning. Maybe it's dropped to under 40C?
Regarding the floor I wrote about yesterday (U.15170, 15191, 15190), discussion with Roddy from the East Mound shows that our floor follows a typical construction technique – one plaster layer, followed by a 'make-up' layer, followed by a second plaster layer. The multiple deposit under the plaster (15194) are part of a compound layered occupation phase. The unit is over to LKH now, who laboured over the section all morning.
For the rest of the day I went back to my old confusion corner – NE corner of space 450, East of U.15182 trying to figure out its connection to spaces 446, 448. I have been scraping, drawing and clarifying F.3321, 3329, 3324, 3326. I wish I could say there were more clarity on it, but it'll have to be taken down further before we understand how the features relate to one another chronologically and spatially. At the moment it seems the mudbricks line (3329) is added in between buttresses 3326 and 3321, perhaps as an installation respecting them. There continue to be large pottery sherds in between the bricks, in the mortar line. JMR suggested that space 448 is an outside area, so these bricks may have been put in the passage from inside (450) to outside as a pavement, or to block it, or as a bench/shelf installation. |
