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a 2
dy Yesterday we started removing a2, we began to remove only the bricks that are located in the east side, and we removed the first three rows. Today we are continuing the removal of these bricks. The first row of bricks contained whole bricks (40x36x10cm) . The second row of bricks where half bricks (16x9cm) and they contained animal bones and kiln waste inclusions. Animal holes where found in several of them. In the next course of bricks we found whole bricks, one of them had three finger impressions on the inner face and we could also see the negative impressions of the fingers on the mortar. This brick was not a whole brick (36x20x9cm) . The mortar and the brick were photographed. The following brick to be removed was the one next to it and it contained two sherds, an animal bone, phytoliths , sand , inclusions of kiln waste and very small stones, and the same was for the brick behind it, that had finger impressions and inclusions of bricky red material. After removing these rows of bricks all the way down of a2 a stone pavement (f132) was discovered. The next row of bricks was similar to the previous , it contained phytoliths  and kiln waste inclusions, one of the bricks in this row was damaged , very fragile and it flecked off as soon as it was touched. The bottom brick in the west side of the a2 was sitting on top of a stone , so the bottom surface of that brick was concave due to the round convex surface of the rock. A seed (2 halves) was found in the soil of that brick. Between the eastern bricks of that row a bead was found in the mortar. The only brick that was removed in one piece is the western brick of that row, behind that brick there was a heavy presence of plant roots. The pavement (f132) that was found under the bricks is surrounded by hard compact material (f150) that it also overlays. This compact layer curves in the east side around the stones of the pavement and slops up slightly (a6).