| Entry: | Today was spent removing the rest of the room fill of 17262 and cleaning/searching for the buttresses around the unit (f. 3339/3306, 3338/3308, 3356/3355). While the room fill removal was easy and quick, the search for the buttresses was frustrating. They are heavily degraded and their boundaries are extremely difficult to locate with any precision. It seems the silly meep-meeps have been having a field day in them and in many cases only a single line of mortar serves to identify their faces. These mortar lines are often not as straight as we would wish them to be. They are in diagonals and swoops and it's not clear if they were built in such a manner or if the millennia that have passed since their construction have altered their initial course. It seems the best plan of action would to cut so far into the buttress that they become clear, but lose their true boundaries. this would be unfortunate because of the lost information, but with the boundaries so degraded, they are not apparent in any other fashion. |
