| Entry: | Work has been slow, and I feel as though I am annoying some people… We are very close to floor levels – and the excavation needs to be slow as the plastered surfaces we find here and there are fragile seem to be discontinuous. This confuses me… and I remember again that despite the fact that I have been here all these years this only my first proper house excavation.
The exciting bit is the new numbers for the new building. We are now in building 48. The large room is now space 239, the small room remains the same.
Medha was working in the small room with unit 11110 (space 234) and came down to the floor levels, removing some by mistake in the process. I was quite upset about it but that’s only normal, its her first time excavating, and infill was very clay rich, so it stuck to the plastered floor so hard that it was very difficult for her to remove it without taking out the plastering itself. No finds, nothing… There is a clay partition in the center of the room, connected to the partition wall that separates this space from space 239. As I wrote before, the space had already revealed all sorts of features when we gave it a nice clean in the beginning. There was a nice bin/basin like plastered feature by the southern end of the western wall. Then a possible post scar in the central area of the same wall, followed by a more homogenous infill toward the north of the wall probably covering a platform. There is also a line in the central part of the room on a north-south axis, extending from the partition wall. There is also a funny plaster line, extending northwards about a meter from the southern wall.
We concentrated on a possible post retrieval pit in the central section of the western wall where the possible post scar is. Slowly and painfully I tried to define a cut, but did not find one. It is true that this central section of the room fill has a lot more rubble type deposits than the other bits of the room, but there is no real defined area… there are big chunks of plaster that come out from here, and I do believe that they were related to the post – nice mouldings attached to the wall. But destroyed when the building was decided to be abandoned. And all we can do now is guess what happened…
I guess I have been quite skeptical about this post scar, simply because it does not have the width of the typical ones. But then again our space is not a typical one – being quite small for a Catal house.Entered By: Burcu Tung |
