| Entry: | very frustsrating two days, probably because we tried to go to fast. Last week I finished off the week by digging a sondage up against the north wall F. 1339 cut by the helenistic pit to try and gauge the depth of room fill. A couple of centimetres down and I hit another floor/fill (which I don’t know yet). Anyway to the south this layer appeared to be pretty uniform so we started to remove it. While the wall plaster and the walls appear to continue down in a unifrom manner we hit another wall construction to the east, under which the wall plaster we were following continued. So going back to the roomfill we managed to identify different layering, although you have to look hard and have a certain degree of faith. The wall construction to the east continues to baffle, as it and the roomfill (11416) appear to be cut by the burials, which themselves are proving more complex than first thought. In my mind the burials must be cutting and sealed in a sequence that relates to the filling in of the upper portion of the building, or that there is an intermediate activity phase between the 'true' upper and lower building sequences. At the moment this is not clear nor is the function of another wall appearing along the western wall, which appears later than the plastering of the early building but earlier than the backfilling episodes? All very confusing but serves me right for trying to rush things. Of slightly easier stratigraphy has been the sequence of 'placed' deposits within the little room within the south west of the building F. 1345. Two deposits were of particular interest one 11644/ 11295 contained worked bone tools and obsidian amongst other things. Below this was an ashy bone dump 11648 with a myriad of worked and unworked stones, both these units were prioritised and the results have shown some interesting results which I wont go into here as Im tired and confused.Entered By: RR |
