| Entry: | Today, I finished unit 16937 and 16943. It’s a pit and it belong probably to the byzantine period (at least post Neolithic and chalcolithic). It cut at least 4 walls (F.3346, F.3350, F.3349, F.2426). We can note different composition of walls: F. 3346 and F. 3350 with black brick and white mortar and F.3349 and F.2426 with white brick and orange-burnt mortar. These differences underline maybe different phases of construction. But we see on the F. 3305 that various kind of construction could be coexisting. The base of the pit is very flat; we note it because mod brick construction appeared on the same level after the last fill layer of the pit. It may be the same “construction” that unit F.3346 (same color, texture, place…). On the fill of the pit, I found some pottery post Neolithic or Chalcolithic and a fragment of glass bracelet.
I joined JHB in the space 342 and we have continued to excavate this area. A concentration of artifact and construction material is present on the center of the space. A lot of perturbations (animal barrows) make difficult the legibility of remains. We have found some pieces of mod brick and construction material (white hard bloc) with few mortars (orange-burnt). On the west of the area, fragment of plaster and paint plaster have been found. I think these remains might be a result of the collapse of walls. A buttress is near this concentration. Problematics are to understand why this concentration seems localized at the center of the area and if belong to a collapse layer of the room or if this concentration is one part of and fill pit. |
