| Entry: | Since my last entry I have been doing all sorts of things. But more importantly we have removed some features (1) and started some (2 possibly 3) and cleared out some problematic units in our building, 102. Actually, the clearing out has been balanced by new strange structures and units, so I guess our relationsip with the building has reached some kind of status quo by now. Indeed, the connection between the excavator and the feature can sometimes be problematic because it can become very personal, and on the other hand very detached. I could add many examples of such features, but that will be for another day.
Anyway, our pod of three is right now working all in one space; me on the hearth, Jedrzej on the oven and Yunuz on some sort of cut. In my last entry I wrote about F3688, with a "sink"like part, probably a base of some sort. We still haven't figured out that yet. What we did figure out (well mostly Josh and Scott from HRT) is that the baby burial F3691 was above the ashy layer with horn core and human cranial fragments. The hearth is complicated. I have removed three layers of it as we speak. Firstly a burnt fill, and secondly a thin makeplayer beneath, which when removed revealed the wallings and another burnt layer. My impression so far is that this rectangular hearth might have been proper cleaned and given new "make up" at least twice. The only way to know is to continue, which I will tomorrow. The cut is situated north of F3688, and continues further out of the trench as well. The oven 7101 has interesting stratigraphy; full of make-up and burning layers. It looks like it might have been formalised in an later phase of usage. Work in progress. |
