| Entry: | Instead of staying in the same corner as yesterday, I was told to work today on the Northeastern corner of the room. This ended up being even more confusing than the Southeast corner as it was even more heavily disturbed by animal burrows. There is one hole, for example, directly across the eastern wall right where it meets the northern wall. The hole in nearly 10 cm wide and so it is almost entirely impossible to determine whether the walls are bonded or if the eastern wall abuts the northern. It appears that it abuts, but added to the confusion is the construction of the northern wall itself. The wall seems to dip in towards the center, thus the courses do not run horizontally, but dip in as well with the corners higher. This is possibly the result of a collapse of the earlier northern wall? This would make sense as if the previous wall had collapsed, the corners would have remained standing higher than the center of the wall as the corners are stronger being better supported. The upper phase of the of the wall was just built upon the collapse of the lower phase without leveling it first. This means that the courses of the wall were constructed along the dip and in order to straighten the wall eventually, they put the courses on at varying thickness. The courses also seem to merge together in strange ways--also not helped by many many silly meep-meep holes. Normally removing a couple courses of the wall would help to clarify the situation, unfortunately, there are no many courses of this upper wall left, so I hope it starts making sense soon. |
