| Entry: | We cleaned up the space significantly today. I finished up 7931, 7940 (under which the horn cores 7920 had been), and continued 7938 along the south wall. With 7938 I found an indentation in the south wall - apparantly what one might expect for an oven, but this area is behind and between the two so-far identifiable fire features. There was not enough time to finish cleaning the wall. VS continued 7921 today - it is looking more and more like a small side room, although a large amount of fallen brick and a plethora of rodent burrows obscure its form. What we thought was a bin floor in 7921 yesterday today turned out to not be one - it does not reach the west wall as far as we can tell. Perhaps it was a part of the dividing wall that then fell over?
I also investigated the cut in the east wall with 7945. As it turns out, it is not one cut but at least two. There is a late, almost rectangular cut visible in the plaster that goes through our side of the east wall, but not the abutting wall. Beneath this cut, there seems to be another change in the wall plaster which lines up with a disturbed area on the floor. While the date of the first cut is unclear, as only bone and obsidian was found in it), I suspect it is late Roman or Byzantine. The second cut might be Neolithic; I will therefore leave it untli we come down to that layer.
In all, we are getting much closer to finding the last phase of the building as the last inhabitants had left it.Entered By: UK |
