| Entry: | Yippee, unit 31142, on the surface of B106, connects to the wall F5058! That was the nice result of this morning. I started by removing the fills 31153+31156 together and sampled them. Then I realized that the supposed in-between fill and plaster 31151 and 31152 weren’t extending towards the part excavating, but clearly just present on the other side of the section, it is thus probably a kind of repair patch. Under 31153 and 31156 I found on most parts directly the searched plaster layer 31142, though in a very bad state: only the bottom part has kept the smoothed surface, to the top it gets crumblier, there are also two probably natural NS cracks that disturb a bit the connection and some spots have been removed or crumbled away. The remains show however clearly that the white plaster-layer went up to the wall without interruption. The way it connects to the wall 5058 is quite interesting. It is preserved along the wall on ca. 3cm, then goes as a little concave surface to the east and then slopes down to the east as the rest of the plasters do. In the section profile and while excavating we could spot a layer, 31172, sometimes very thin and mixed brown-white, to the south thicker and compact white, that was applied as seemingly a patch on the with dark-brown earth filled (31173) concave surface of 31142 at the connecting place. It would probably have been done to make the plaster even, though the fill may be intentional or just concentrating naturally in such an incurved little place. Maybe it was a very thin layer also sloping down but this was not possible to clear this. After finding this we wanted to know what was under unit 31142 and started the removal at a place where earth already stuck out. We found first a lengthy fill of brown earth, 31175, that sometimes seemed to have a bit a brick-like consistence. It has irregular depth and seemed to thin out on the surface, maybe we will find a connection later. Under it is another crumbly white plaster, 31174. It seems it could be connected with a band of plaster layer that may slope towards north on the building’s surface. This will be cleared in the next days.
So basically we have here three main plaster layers that are all sloping down towards east. 31157 the top one, is only present on the hill, due to disturbance through pit. Then we have 31142 that is sloping down all the way to the surface, and in the center also towards north, building a kind of concave surface. Sometimes directly under it, sometimes separated with the fill 31175, we have the plaster layer 31174, which is for now visible on a big patch on the surface, and sloping up towards west under 31142. It probably goes up to the wall, but honestly the limit on the hill between 31142 and 31174 is thin and unclear so that it is hard to distinguish on which plaster layer we are looking at; hopefully we will be able to separate them. So tomorrow, removal of 31142! Sampled for floatation were all layers that could be removed clearly separately (33153+31156 and 31175; 31172 is mixed in the sample for 31142) |
