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| Area: North |
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| Dug in Year: 2013 |
| Feature Type: wall |
| Feature Subtype: internal wall |
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| Related Photo (Click to view larger version in new window) |
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| Location: In the middle of Sp.17 and Sp 18 |
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| Grid X: 1056.4 Grid Y: 1195.28 |
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This is an interesting feature, constituting the illusionary middle of Sp 17 and Sp 18. It is an illusion because the building continues a good way into to the N and E trench walls, but this is the center piece of the trench so to say. Anyway, it consists of 3 units at the moment, of which one is fully removed, u.20907. It should be added also that this plaster collapse probably is mixed with other materials as well. Plaster in the wall had red paint on it but was removed ca 15 cm because it was collapsing from the exposure.
So why do I call this feature a center piece even if it is an illusion? There are just so many additions and activity (obviously ritually associated as well) connected to this feature; it is hard to ignore that it has been center of a lot of events. How this feature was formed and why will be answered perhaps when it is removed, perhaps it even was a bigger wall connected to the S wall as they (and I) initially thought in 2012, but we will see. It is clearly an isolated internal wall on this level, but it is not excavated fully 2013.
However at some point a lot of additions were made. The first one seems to be F.3698 (also not excavated yet). The basin F.3699 and bin F.7306 might have been added approximately contemporarily, but this is hard to say even if there is a physical connection. This wall was also cut by a burial, or rather baby dump, F.7138, and another two babies were buried in close proximity of this feature. One last remark is on the relation between the building infill u.20481 and the wall: an amount of nice obsidian was found in the bottom of the infill over 2u.0908, but actually they might derive from the wall as the remains of a deposition. |
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| In situ Conservation: No |
| Lifted: No |
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| Feature Relationships: |
| bonded with: (Click to view the record) 3698, 3699, 7306 |
| cut by: (Click to view the record) 7138 |
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| Number of Related Diary Entries: 3 |
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| Conservation Recorded: No |
| Related Photos: 17 (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: 4 (Click here to view unit list) |
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