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| Area: North |
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| Dug in Year: 2013 |
| Feature Type: platform |
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| Location: E of Sp.87, length (1.7m) goes from N to S wall of building |
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| Grid X: 1050.45 Grid Y: 1183.02 |
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Plastered platform/bench on top of floor u.20914 that occupies the eastern part of Sp.87 and extends from its N to its S wall. The platform has a 50x40cm cut in its southern side due to a later post retrieval pit (F.7113).
This feature was nicely plastered (U.20628, ca.2cm depth) in its whole extension. After removing U.20628 a complicated picture of platform construction and re-modelling appeared.
The NE of the platform was composed of a coarse make-up/infill matrix and associated clay ridge that appears to have served to increase the length of the platform for it to meet the N wall of the space.
Inmediately to the S of this unit lies U.20948, a thick plaster edge containing a brown silty clay sediment in its central part, possibly part of a repairement episode of the platform.
The rest of the platform consists of U.20944, a finer make-up/infill than that of units 20940 or 20948. This unit is composed of patches of different sediment types: red clay, grey mortar-like materials, burnt sediment (in situ) and plaster, all of the intermixed. The thick patches of plaster occur mostly around the edges of the platform in an irregular pattern, probably representing repairement episodes.
Other materials, such as the mudbrick and the thick plaster fragment of U.20996 appear to have been dumped into the platform feature during construction, their function/role being not clear.
Under the layer of make-up U. 20944 lied a series of up to six clean grey floors with their respective make-ups. These have been grouped into two units (20952 and 20978) of three floors each.
The NE corner od this feature is characterised by the concentration of reddish clay packing it shows, possibly related to the construction of the N. wall F.3681. |
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| In situ Conservation: No |
| Lifted: No |
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| Feature Relationships: |
| cut by: (Click to view the record) 7113, 7129 |
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| Number of Related Diary Entries: 0 |
| Conservation Recorded: No |
| Related Photos: 22 (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: 8 (Click here to view unit list) |
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