| | Area: South | | | | Dug in Year: 2005 | | Feature Type: animal disturbance | | | | Location: | | | Large, very large, animal burrow. Very irregular 'V' shape in plan. Sides and base irregular, often undercut, filled with similar material to surrounding deposits but looser.
Cut not really defined until down to level of platforms F1525/1526. However was suspected from higher as western side of wall F1523 shows truncation. Plan 05/418 of room fill also shows poorly defined areas of looser room fill. So having literally got to the bottom, we now know what is going on. As excavation progressed this disturbance was recorded as cuts and fills where it was defined, otherwise room fill (11378) and layers (11376), (11372), (11369), (11367), (11366), (11347) which this cut disturbed have no real record of it and so are potentially contaminated with later material. Later pottery, both Byzantine and Chalcolithic have been recovered from some of these deposits.
Initially thought to be pits, feared to be a grave or retrieval pits but likelihood is that this is a large animal set or den. Interpretation as animal disturbance does seem to explain the evidence in the best way; the irregular cut sides, fills similar to surroundings, looser fills, not being able to follow cuts from surface, truncation of wall F1523 from top and southern section showing disturbance from surface , and all the later pottery which has been showing up in some of the surrounding contexts.
It is the extent of this damage which is quite impressive but also disheartening as both platforms of B53 exposed, have suffered extensive damage. | | | | In situ Conservation: No | | Lifted: No | | | | Feature Relationships: | | cuts: (Click to view the record) 1523, 1525, 1526 | | | | Number of Related Diary Entries: 0 | | Conservation Recorded: No | Buildings:
none | Spaces: (Click to view the record)
| | No. Of Units in this Feature: 8 (Click here to view unit list) |
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