| Entry: | Last day of excavation.
CMF and EUR did some small scale work on their collapse layer in sondage 18370, exposing a cluster of plaster fragments. The rest of this layer will be fore next year.
KTX removed the rest of buttress F.3301, exposing more of the plaster layer 16999. To do this, he took off some parts of the plaster layer 18387 that runs up to F.3301 anf F.5058 and some of the lumps that had been blurring the layers. It turned out that 18387 is larger and comes into the room more than we saw earlier. 16999 comes out from under the buttress and wall and runs into the room, but in some parts there was no plaster, only crumbly grey fill. In some spots, 18387 might be directly on top of 16999. In the very corner, though, the two plaster layers were separated by fill 18391. 18387 seems not to be connected to the plaster layer(s) 16932 in the centre of the room. 16932, because of its concave and irregular form, looks more and more like remains from the pit F.3331.
GWN worked further on exposing the plaster feature 16941. By the end of the day, it looked like remains of three very fragmented plastered bins next to each other, and the eastern part is not yet fully exposed – we will try to do that tomorrow.
JHB worked further on gap 15337, exposing a large, partially eroded and irregular, plaster lump, which blocked the gap towards the outside, in the eastern part of the unit.
CMF scraped wall F.3324 in the northern part to locate the second gap 15336 we saw in 2010, but never since. The gap was not located after the scraping, but seeing the wall freshly scraped in this part made me notice again that it looks less and less wall-like north of buttress F.3326 – the southern part is fine, though.
DLG took down the corner F.2424 and F.5051 to the level of the (preserved) top of the corner of F.3303 and F.3310. After that, the situation looked like a wall made of a double row of bricks, with a few unusual aspects. There seems to be a vertical layer of mortar between F.2424 and F.3303, but a vertical layer of plaster between F.5051 and F.3310. Whatever their exact relation is, it now seems clear that at least F.3310 was constructed later than F.5051, and this might be true also for the other features going along with them: F.3310, with F.3303, F.3311, F.3346, F.3368, F.3365, F.3366, F3353, are later than F.5051 with F.2424, F.3352, F.3341, F.3364, F.5062, F.5061, F.5063, F.3363. |
