| | Area: North | | | | Dug in Year: 2004 | | Feature Type: wall | | | | Location: near NW corner, partition | | | | Grid X: 1052.4 Grid Y: 1170.4 | | | A plastered 'partition wall' is attached to the north wall, near the west corner. To the east, there is a plastered platform (F. 1656) that looks like it joins. To the west (i.e. On the inside of the wall) there was no plastered surface or an obvious floor (U.7954, 7971) and the deposits are completely different, which suggests that this wall did seperate two different areas. The bottom of the wall, on the west side, was unresolved, although it would appear as if there is a connecting plaster line on the current ground level that connects this partition wall with a similar one on the south wall. However, this realtionship is unconfirmed. U.7976 is the vertical plaster that appears to conect the partition wall with some upright post- pillar- or vertical support.
Unexcavated in 2004
Fully excavated Sep 2008. SF
This partition had the appearance of a bench but more than likely functioned as a partition which was constructed at the start of the building's life and continued throughout occupation sequence with modifications.
The initial construction of mudbrick (17917) and mortar (17918) stood two clear courses high, c. 025m high, 1.00m in length (up to truncation by animal burrow and brick width, 0.4m wide. Constructed over the final levelling / make (17914) up in building below.
An upright (F.4004 was then added to the northern end against wall F.1655) on the eastern edge of the partition, so a narrow upright half width of partition. This was some 0.2m wide and 0.3m in length formed with bricks on edge. It seems that this upright was built against a shallow, earlier engaged pilaster formed of mortar but no associated plaster use was found. F.4004 could therefore be a modification to an earlier engaged pilaster
A fragmented layer of bricks was then added, clearly abutting upright F.4004.
A third course may have been truncated as evidenced by fragments of overlying brick. The partition and upright was rendered on its surface and sides by a thick blocky mortar (17920) and then the initial plaster render (17904) around the upright and across the partition in very patchy cover.
Whilst it lay in alignment with a shallow brick partion to the south (F1659, (17915)), which was also laid at the initial layout of the building, the two constructions were different the southern division (17915) was a single course in depth and served as a kerb rather than a patrition with a superstructure (is this true in later sequence?), the two features were cut by an large animal burrow so a relationship was not gleaned. SF 12/07/09 | | | | In situ Conservation: No | | Lifted: No | | | | Feature Relationships: | | bonded with: (Click to view the record) 1655, 1656 | | | | Number of Related Diary Entries: 3 | | | | Conservation Recorded: No | | Related Photos: 55 (Opens as a group in a new window) | Buildings: (Click to view the record)
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| | No. Of Units in this Feature: 10 (Click here to view unit list) |
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