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| Area: North |
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| Dug in Year: 2013 |
| Feature Type: platform |
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| Location: In E part of Sp17, middle of Sp17, going in to the trench wall |
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| Grid X: 1058.6 Grid Y: 1196 |
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This feature was a plastered platform. It was elevated ca 9-10 cm above the floor level it was built upon (u30542, u20909). In its south plastered finish was preserved. Otherwise this was mostly disturbed and hard to recognize, because of it being truncated in 2012. In the E trench section it is visible that it was built in respect to oven F.7101, that is, built around it. It is probable they were used contemporary, but also more certainly the platform is younger.
This feature was cut by the construction of a hearth (F3692), the latest hearth in this space. This is not a random decision; the removing of the platform showed that it was built on top of two other hearths; one in the same place (below) F7135 (the youngest) and one next to it, in to the trench wall. In fact, the make up u20979, which was cut together with the plaster of the platform to make hearth F3692, was built in respect to F7124 (the hearth next to this make up, beneath the plaster u20949). Perhaps it should be seen as this hearth and the platform was built contemporarily, even though the platform came first.
It is perhaps so that the reason for the platform to be built was to organize and structure further the order and activity of fire installations. The rectangular hearth was the centre perhaps for this planning, and meant to be in the middle of the space surrounded by plaster (i.e. the platform). |
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| In situ Conservation: No |
| Lifted: No |
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| Feature Relationships: |
| above: (Click to view the record) 7124, 7135 |
| bonded with: (Click to view the record) 7101 |
| cut by: (Click to view the record) 3692 |
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| Number of Related Diary Entries: 0 |
| Conservation Recorded: No |
| Related Photos: 4 (Opens as a group in a new window) | Buildings:
none | Spaces: (Click to view the record)
| | No. Of Units in this Feature: 2 (Click here to view unit list) |
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