| | Area: North | | | | Dug in Year: 2003 | | Feature Type: south wall of sp. 89 | | | | Location: south of space 89 | | | | Grid X: 1055.7 Grid Y: 1181.11 | | | South wall of space 89 is built of two different types of bricks: predominant are the bricks made of sandy, loose clay of a orangish brown colour with inclusions such as salts and bits of reddish matter, maybe some mineral found in clay. The second type would be bricks of a red brown colour, more compact, also made of sandy stuffed clay, but of a somewhat different texture, maybe of scorched soil. First three rows of bricks that are preserved were mad eof this kind of bricks.
Mortar is made of blackish middeny soil with inclusions such as charcoal and salts, and is hitherto thicker than expected (probably patching the gaps).
In the western part of the wall rows of bricks are not completely regular, they slightly slide up and down. Also, at the SW bottom end of the wall the bricks are missing - this portion is filled with compact middeny soil, and the whole wall is actually sitting on a midden.
12 rows of bricks were preserved. The thickness of bricks is around 9 cm.
Munsell chart for the bricks is 7.5 YR 6/4, 7.5 YR 5/5, 7.5 YR 5/6; for mortar it's 7.5 YR 5/2.
At first it looked as if this wall is contemporary with the south wall of the space 88, but after scraping the surface between spaces 88 and 89 and comparing the the colour and thickness of bricks, it became clear that these two walls have nothing in common.
Later on, when we removed east wall of space 88 (F. 163) and started removing east wallof space 89 (F. 1016), the situation became clearer. Bricks of F. 761 and F. 1016 interlace, and they are made of the same kind of soil, which indicate that they were built at the same time. Also, it is very likely that F. 1017 is contemporary with F. 761 and F. 1016, because their bricks are interlocked.
PHOTO: 20030709_BACH_011/016 | | | | In situ Conservation: No | | Lifted: Yes | | | | Feature Relationships: | | abuts: (Click to view the record) 1021 | | bonded with: (Click to view the record) 1016, 1017 | | same as: (Click to view the record) 1019 | | | | Number of Related Diary Entries: 0 | | Conservation Recorded: No | Buildings:
none | Spaces: (Click to view the record)
| | No. Of Units in this Feature: 3 (Click here to view unit list) |
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