| | Area: North | | | | Dug in Year: 2001 | | Feature Type: bin | | | | Location: along the west wall and in the middle of it | | | | Grid X: 1053.38 Grid Y: 1186.31 | | | This feature comprises one of at least three bins that are located along the wet wall of the building and in the center of the former space 158. The bin 780 is the top one and is attached to the west house wall.
All the bins are located right below the massive packing on top of which was the oven 646. Also they are all sloping from the west towards the center of the house (F. 606).
Interesting thing about this feature is that has the original fill in it. The fill is soft, black, ashy soil. The bottom of the bin is completely covered with the fill, but the sides of the bin are not very high. They are rather, truncated down to the bottom. This seems to have happened to the other bins as well. The 780 is attached to the plaster of the west wall and it is unusual that it seems to be sealed by the upper floor plaster before the next floor on top was put in. That means that after the prehistoric people decided to remodel the area, they truncated the edges of the bins, did not empty F. 780, but sealed with the next floor up.
The bin is made of clean beige colour clay and white plaster. The packing clay was used for building the bin and the plaster was applied on top of it.
It is interesting that the F. 750 cut is sitting right on top of the northern edge of F. 780. We still don't know how the cut for 750 was made.
White plaster on top of this bin represented its last building phase (U #8417). After removal of that plaster very thick packing appeared, consisting of reddish brown clay, lumps pf plaster and red burnt material with charcoal and gypsum balls (especiallly in the W part). Underneath these layers we came down to the new floor from earlier phase (2nd) phase which is contemporary with the adjacent F. 781 and floor unit 8411. The bin from this phase was very well preserved. Next step was removing of the second phase plaster. Below it was a very thin layer of packing with surface covered with phytoliths and with an impression of matting. Removal of this layer gave way to the third, earliest phase of the bin. Plaster here was damaged, but obviously renewed by greasy orangish clay. This floor is stretching under the surrounding floor (unit 8411) and south wall of the bin is missing.
4th phase of this bin comprised white plaster floor and packing made of orangish brown sticky clay, as was the case in previous phases.
Below this was 5th floor of the feature, consisting of white plaster, and rim remains, poorly preserved. It was almost impossible to distinguish between the bin floor and underlying, regular floor in this area. This thin layer was slightly sloping towards east. | | | | In situ Conservation: No | | Lifted: Yes | | | | Feature Relationships: | | below: (Click to view the record) 646 | | contained by: (Click to view the record) 781, 782 | | cut by: (Click to view the record) 750 | | | | Number of Related Diary Entries: 0 | | Conservation Recorded: No | Buildings: (Click to view the record)
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| | No. Of Units in this Feature: 7 (Click here to view unit list) |
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