| | Area: Trench 5 | | | | Dug in Year: 2012 | | Feature Type: wall | | Feature Subtype: buttress | | | | Location: interior buttress in center of wall F.2427, between sp.310 and sp.454 | | | | Grid X: 695.86 Grid Y: 970.235 | | | JMR 27.8. 2009: Buttress (?) in the SE of space 310. Half still sticking in the south section of the trench. Relation to wall 2427 not clear, will have to be clarified after extending the Trench towards south. Buttress already undercut during the 2009 season; seems to be sitting on fill. Top not preserved as so close under the surface of the mound.
3302 belongs to the later wall phase in Sp.310 together with walls 2408, 2427, 5058 and buttress 3302. 3301 and 3302 might be called butresses or maybe short pieces of wall with an opening in between.
Grey mudbrick and pale yellow mortar covered by thick white plaster,at least two layers of it.
JMR 22.8.2010: Buttress F.3302 together with 3301 forms the border between Spaces 310 and 454. Original (reconstructed) dimensions are noted above, but southern part baldy truncated by Byzantine pit F.3331.
Buttress consists of dark grey brick, pale yellow mortar (at least seven lines of mortar and 9 layers of bricks are visible in cut of 3331) with thick white plaster. No bricks visible in plan. A thick layer of plaster separates 3302 from 2427. Thus 3302 was built against 2427. The wall juts out here a bit, thus probably planned to meet the buttress.
Upper part (ca.20cm) of 3302 removed in 2010 for stability (truncation).
(KTX - 19/08/12) - This feature is the eastern, smaller buttress of B.106, which is connected to wall F.2427 in the interior. It was built above a white plastered layer (U.16999), as was wall F.2427. Above this a large slab of lighter mudbrick formed the base of the buttress, covering the entire surface. From thereon, 6 courses of brick were identified, of which the upper two sloped upwards in order to compensate the uneven substrate/base. The brick courses were smaller than the larger base brick and most likely a double-row of brick placed at right angles at wall F.2427. The upper courses of brick bonded directly to the inner part of F.2427, proving both features are contemporenous. At some point in time this buttress, along with F.3301 in the West, as features of this upper building, formed a separation between sp.310 in the North and sp. 454 in the South. | | | | In situ Conservation: No | | Lifted: No | | | | Feature Relationships: | | abuts: (Click to view the record) 2427 | | bonded with: (Click to view the record) 2427 | | cut by: (Click to view the record) 3331 | | | | Number of Related Diary Entries: 26 | | | | Conservation Recorded: No | | Related Photos: 49 (Opens as a group in a new window) | Buildings: (Click to view the record)
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| | No. Of Units in this Feature: 2 (Click here to view unit list) |
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