| | Area: North | | | | Dug in Year: 2012 | | Feature Type: wall | | Feature Subtype: | | | | Location: North-western region of building 108 | | | | Grid X: 1041.9 Grid Y: 1179.4 | | | Feature 3626 is a wall located in the NW region of building 108, in space 84. It is abutted by a possible bench F. 3635 as well as a possible division wall 3637. The wall is constructed of ,mudbrick but has no plaster. Was not excavated
Further excavation in 2013 by a. klimowicz:
Feature 3626 was assigned as the Northern wall of the Sp.488. Its construction was the most complicated comparing other walls of the mentioned structure. Especially in the term of a number of building techniques applied. It became clear that the lower layers of the wall were set against the common constructional rules maintained wherever on site. Due to lack of space that was restricted by already existed walls (from the south F.3646, and from the north F.3096), builders were forced to load reused bricks and paste them using mortar probably directly throwing mixture into prepared before foundation cut. Consequently, in the course of the exploration it was possible to evidence broken bricks of different texture placed in varied position that were immersed in irregular paste of mortar.
Removing several layers of the wall exposed the relationship between F3626 and the superstructure of the oven (F.7108) of B.77. Worth noticing is that, before erecting the wall (F. 3626) builders covered whole above mentioned fire installation using only mortar material coating the dome of the structure. In other words the construction F.3626 respects the oven, therefore the wall has later origins than the fire installation. During farther constructional phases builders did not care about the vertical line of the wall in its central level. It is clear that it was difficult to maintain the straightness in the extremely narrow space 488. Additionally, re-using the broken bricks was the significant factor of the final disheveled form of F.3626. The appearance was not as important as in typical buildings, because the describing part of the feature was plausibly immediately covered by the infill (u. 19580, 20486) that wrapped whole sp.488, creating at the same time suitable base/ground for erection above structure B.108.
2014 excavation season:
- In 2014 the excavation of the Northern wall of B.108 (F.3626) was accomplished. The work was focused on the western part of the feature due to its eastern segment was executed in 2013. In the course of the recent research activity the major interpretation has been not changed (See also previous description). The western segment of the wall comprised of 13 courses of bricks (U.20678) joined by 11 layers of mortar (U.20679), reaching the height of 1.20m. | | | | In situ Conservation: No | | Lifted: No | | | | Feature Relationships: | | abutted by: (Click to view the record) 3637 | | bonded with: (Click to view the record) 3625, 3627, 3635 | | | | Number of Related Diary Entries: 2 | | | | Conservation Recorded: No | | Related Photos: 29 (Opens as a group in a new window) | Buildings: (Click to view the record)
| Spaces: (Click to view the record)
| | No. Of Units in this Feature: 3 (Click here to view unit list) |
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