| description (summary) | 2003-7-29 | jl | outer circle of k27, radius from relay 219cm, ring surrounding area of k29 | [Input File: N806jl.j] |
| This locus is circular, a ring one meter in thickness around k29, within the area of k27. If it were plotted as two circles, its outer radius would be 219 centimeters and its inner radius 124 centimeters. It touches the stone walls on its outer edge and k29 on its inner edge. | [Input File: N824jl.j] |
| strategy (projected or implemented) | We created two new loci, k29 and k30. The outer locus, k30, is a ring one meter thick around the outside of the circle k27, to include all of the area that we consider potentially contaminated. | [Input File: N824jl.j] | ||
| argument | Although it is unusual to create a circular locus, we decided that it was necessary in this case. Our understanding of the circle k27 in the api tells us that later material was regularly being washed into the fissure and was transported down to earlier strata (for a modern example, see v171). This later contamination would corrupt (and, if fact, has corrupted) our pottery lots, potentially giving us inaccurate, later dates for the strata within the structure. Therefore, we needed a way to separate the potentially contaminated soil from uncontaminated material. | [Input File: N824jl.j] |
| space definition | 2003-7-29 | jl | 765 | [Input File: N806jl.j] |
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