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f 130
ds Lens. During the cleaning of A18 to take nice photos we found a metal object, the pin q226.1, coming perhaps from the backfill or more probably from the good layer below. So we created this feature just to record the q-item.

f 129
ds Some mud bricks found during the removal of the east baulk of k3. More bricks have been then identify also in the north section of k3 forming probably a wall. From the bricks preserved it seems that the wall was running east to west, even if two courses of bricks were uncovered to the south. It is preserved for about 150 cm east to west and about 100 cm north to south including the southern bricks. The bricks are red and very badly preserved. The lowest course of brick is instead gray in color. The bricks measure about 35x35x10 cm. It is possible that these bricks belonging to two different walls forming a corner, but only further excavations can clarify it.

f 127
ds Mud brick wall running east to west closing a6 to the south. This wall seems to be linked with the clay layer f150, surrounding the pavement f132, and abutting the wall itself. This wall is very low preserved, with three courses of horizontal bricks visible. The bricks are gray in color and are not easily recognized. It is preserved for about 180 cm east to west, and 15-30 cm in width. Below the lower course of gray bricks there is a layer of reddish fine clay that could be part of bricks but much softer. So it is not clear if it is part of the wall of something else, like a sort of  preparation level for what above.

f 126
ds Mud brick wall running east to west. It is preserved for about 200 cm east to west and 70 cm in height. The south face of this wall, the only one visible for us, was difficult to define. At the beginning we left many more bricks that in a second moment were revealed to be just broken collapsed bricks. So we defined the face following a clear line visible on the surface, and the soil was coming out following exactly this surface, but then in the vertical section we were not able to identify bricks, even if the material is clearly bricky clay. Perhaps it is due to the presence of some kind of plaster. The wall seems to be the north edge of the pavement f108 and just to abut the wall f125 and probably also the wall f84 with its stone foundation.

f 125
ds Wall running north to south in the western part of k101. It is constructed of gray and red mud bricks (10x35x35 cm). In its eastern face seems to be plastered with a thin layer of gray clay. It is preserved for about 120 cm in height and about 130 cm north to south, but we don't know its original length because probably it has been in part removed during the excavation of A19. Its width is not clear, but probably is around 70 cm, that is the measurement of two bricks side by side. The wall is only in part on top of the stone pavement f108 for which it should have been the western edge. On top of the wall there is a row of medium sized stones, probably pertinent to some other structure.

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f 139
ds For the first 5 cm the feature revealed a combination of compact gray bricky material, soft red clay and a small pockets of ash. Within one of these pockets was found carbonized wood. The next few cm of the feature revealed a more compact bricky layer with sherds and some ashy material. These elements can be seen in both the north and west sections adjacent to the feature.

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f 120
ds Accumulation very thick, gray in color with bricky material. Numerous sherds and bones were recovered in this accumulation. f108 is abutting the walls f125 and f126 and can be interpreted like the abandonment after the use of the floor f144, or like the collapse of the two walls above.

f 111
ds Bricky material gray and red in color south to the pavement f108. The southern edge of the pavement f108 is not sharp and there are many sherds embedded in this layer. This layer has been excavated 5 years ago, so now it is difficult to give an interpretation of it. It could be an accumulation or a kind of floor, moreover it is exposed just in a narrow strip next to the southern section of k101.

f 110
ds Stone resting probably on top of the wall f 109 or on a accumulation. It is not really clear because this context has been excavated 5 years ago in A19. The stone measures 55x40x30 cm and it is white in color.

f 109
ds Mud brick wall running north to south, probably forming the eastern wall linked to the pavement f108. This wall has been excavated 5 years ago and in part removed to see its link with the stone pavement f108. Now are preserved just the bricks at the same level of the pavement. It measures about 300 cm north to south and 70 cm in width and it seems to be constructed of a brick and an half. Its relationship with the wall f115 is not clear, probably it abuts f115. The wall seems exactly in line with the wall f85 right to the north of it. Perhaps they could be part of the same wall, and it makes sense, interpreting it like the eastern wall of the pavement f108. Moreover the bricks seem to be of the same kind.

f 108
ds Big stone pavement constructed of big, medium and small stones. In its northern part and in the eastern half it is built with medium sized (15x20 cm) and big sized (25x40 cm) stones. The eastern edge of the pavement forms a sharp straight line, with just a small semicircular lacuna in the middle, instead the southern edge is not really clear with the co presence of both big stones, small pebbles and numerous sherds. The western half is constructed of small pebbles (5-10 cm), and noteworthy is the gradual passage from the big sized stones in the eastern part to the small pebbles of the western one. The edge to the west has been uncovered only in a small part and it is formed by a regular line of pebbles. The northern portion is built with big stones, but the edge is marked by a line of small pebbles. Small pebbles are found also between the big stones to make the pavement more regular. In this pavement have been used different kinds of stone: basalt and limestone, but also reused broken pieces of grinding stones or mortars, and also a big kiln waste. The pavement has a surface almost flat and regular, sloping slightly toward west. In its south-eastern corner it is built with a different technique, forming a sort of circular platform with the biggest stones of the pavement and slightly higher in level, perhaps due to a secondary reconstruction. Can it be interpreted both as a roofed room or as open space (courtyard)?.

f 79
ds Fill inside the bin f71 in the southern part of k4. This fill is constituted of bricky material with some softer lens and it was quite disturbed from animal holes. It is brown in color, very compact and containing phytoliths. This fill is very similar to the accumulation outside the bin, f69 constituted of hard bricky material. Only few sherds have been uncovered in this fill. We stopped at one arbitrary point.
co pale brown
c# 10YR6/3
hd compact
wm clay

f 78
ds Accumulation interpreted as a probable fill inside a structure, now lost, formed by the mud brick wall f84 and f85 inside k101. This accumulation was below the brickfall f75 and it was gray and brown in color, quite compact, with broken pieces of bricks. The accumulation was abutting the wall f84 and f85 and interpreted as abandonment.

f 76
ds Pavement type C uncovered removing the pebble pavement f43. This pavement is constructed of small pebbles (4-8 cm) and numerous sherds lying flat. It is the same of the pebble and sherd pavement f80 in k13, but has a different number because was discovered first. It forms the southern part of a3 next to the southern drain, to the north of the tannur f42. The pebbles and the sherds are embedded in a soft ashy soil on top of the clay layer f128, right as f80.

f 75
ds Brick fall uncovered after the removal of the topsoil f65 in the northern baulk of k101. The brick fall was constituted of broken gray bricks. It was quite compact and disturbed from animal holes. The Brick fall was covering the accumulation underneath, f78 interpreted as abandonment, the mud brick walls f84 and f85 and toward west the other brick fall f94.

f 74
ds Accumulation on top of the pavement f73, created to take the pottery stratified on top of this pavement. It is almost the same of the accumulation above f69, with ashy patches in a sandy soil, mixed with harder clay and broken pieced of bricks, both gray and orange in color. From this accumulation comes a good amount of pottery, in part probably pertinent to the pavement f73 that doesn't have a clear surface, but is quite irregular.
wm sandy clay
co light gray
c# 10YR7/2
hd compact

f 73
ds Pebble and sherd pavement below the accumulation f74 in the northern half of k4. This pavement is the second found in k4 after the pavement f72. The two pavements are really similar, and the only difference clearly visible is a little difference in level. But it is possible that the two pavement are the same, with a sort of later rearrangement of the first pavement f72. Now we consider them as the same pavement. The surface is irregular with many bones and sherds lying flat and vertical in a clay soil.
wm pebbles, sherds, clay, bones
co very pale brown
c# 10YR7/3
hd compact

f 72
ds Pebble and sherd pavement found removing the softer accumulation f70 in the middle of k4. The pavement was on the bottom of this kind of channel in the middle of k4. It was constituted of small sherds and few pebbles, but with a considerable number of bones. Then, uncovered the pavement f73 to the north of it, we assumed that these pavements were the same and we will use for the moment f73. It seems strange a correspondence between the pavement of k3 where three different layers have been uncovered, because the second one that should correspond to f72, is too much better built.

f 77
co light gray
hd very compact
c# 10YR7/2

f 142
wm clay
co light gray
c# 10YR7/1
hd hard

f 145
wm clay
co Very pale brown
c# 10YR7/4
hd compact

f 146
wm clay
co light gray
c# 10YR7/1
hd soft

f 147
wm clay
co pale brown
c# 10YR6/3
hd medium compact

f 149
wm clay
co light yellowish brown
c# 10YR6/4
hd compact