FT 22
represents all features exposed by removal of (16306)
An E-W aligned kerb was delineated extending from the east wall but not traced up to the wall that was obscured by the LOE. This kerb was 0.4m wide and stood two bricks high (as excavated), made of reused bricks both on edge and laid along the southern side. This appears to be the original construction forming a low partition wall or kerb with very faint traces of plaster on the north face. Sometime later in its use it appears that the kerb was widened with a packing material along the northern side. In this form both sides, including its western butt end lying just 0.2m in from the western L.O.E of the trench, were heavily plastered. To the south of the wall was a thick accumulation of finely laminated floors, all heavily fire blackened. A N-S aligned kerb was also defined halfway along the west LOE. Within the demarcated area to the north of these kerbs or walls was a semicircular depression of laminated burnt floors, whilst to the south were more laminated floors around a circular hearth in the SW corner. This charred horizon was excavated as an arbitrary unit (16303) to define the sequence and to reach formation level.
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