| Entry: | Today I opened the new unit 15380, which is a cluster of wall plaster lying in space 449, in order to not mix up different deposition-events in this space. I spent the day exposing this cluster. It is located in front of F 3333 and also stretches along F 3324. The largest pieces of wall plaster are located near the SE-corner of the space. There the pieces are lying very flatly, and on top of them lies a rather large ground stone. Further to the West you can see a firm lump of burned material. In front of F 5057 this collapsed layer can`t be found, but several clayballs are showing up there, as well as in front of F 3326. I think this layer of wall plaster forms a single event, and it might be interesting to note that in between the layer there are no clayballs located. Yesterday I thought that we have a deposition-event of this building material, and afterwards the heap of clayballs was put upon this layer (working as some kind of temporary surface) and some of them rolling down in western direction towards F 5057.But today IF visited the site and had a very interesting theory about this deposition event. He suggested that we are dealing here actually with a roof-surface, and on top of them were the clayballs lying (maybe for drying?), when the roof collapsed it fell down, the wall plaster forming a flatishly, but cracked surface with a clay ball heap on top. I really like this theory and think it is probable. So if this was the case, the roomfill excavated last year would be roomfill dumped after this collapse event, and we can find under this cluster of plaster the chronologically first phase of roomfill in space 449, and maybe a floor of the basement. |
