| Entry: | At last our building changes shape, although it pretty much occupies the same space apart from an extra platform in the south west. The structure looks pretty good in that like building 56, building 65 appears pristine with sharp edges to the features and little sign of wear. The room to the west space 298 however is less well preserved with the bins in a bad state of repair and perhaps even deliberately smashed up. This room appears to also contain a dump or collection of stone tools and bone and may have been the repository of material cleaned from the more pristine space to the east space 297, this cleaning of the house before abandonment seen also in building 56. Again as with building 56 the hearth also has a fragment of grind/quern stone left on it. Other objects lying on the otherwise cleaned surfaces of building 65 were an antler placed in front of the oven, a scapula on the central east platform and a horn core on the SW platform. The walls, bench, oven, central east and northern platforms are also rendered in a white plaster as opposed to the darker and browner rendering of the floors and other features within he building again similar to building 56. Another aspect of the excavation to point out is that the southern wall of building 56 has a definite foundation cut as was the case with the southern wall in building 56, and i mean definite, as it cuts through three walls and the SW platform of the lower structure.Entered By: RR |
