| Entry: | Today I continued working with DSE on the unit 17247 (F2429). The brushing doesn’t show much more than yesterday, so we will go on with the pic and lower the wall down to the level where it seems to have conserved its original width (the upper part is disturbed by a very large pit) and make a horizontal section. This took us quite all the morning and we are still not finished. Making a really horizontal section is a bit tricky since the bricks of F2429 are sloping down towards east, so that we quite often have alternating mortar and bricks. A small connection with the southern wall F2425 remains in the eastern part. Both walls are separated by a ca. 4cm long rest of plaster, probably the same than the one found on the western part, and the inter-wall fill, here about 3cm thick. We will try to remove it separately from U17247. Further insight regarding the construction of F2429 (one or two wall?) hasn’t been won. Interesting finds where a quite worked out obsidian core of about 6-7cm length, documented at the edge of U17247. The boundaries were at the time quite unclear, but I would rather tend to associate it with the inter-wall fill U31124, since it would make more sense to locate it here than in the wall mortar. Our amazing workers also managed to find numerous charred grains in the sieve, and DSE actually found two in situ. According to the botanists some probably are peas, jami!
This morning has all in all been a very nice one, using the pic is somehow quite fulfilling! The trench tour before midday was a great opportunity to see more of what our neighbors are doing and what interesting things they have! And also to realize that disturbed-unclear-badly-preserved contexts are clearly the lot of many of us. It helps me to see what I can expect or what I may have to pay attention to. |
