| Description (summary) |
2008-09-15 |
cVP |
This section shows the eastern section of the German trench, in the area around the bottom of the staircase. In J6 is the level left at the end of the season at loci k94 and k85. At the North we can see the stone wall (f130) over which the big boulder f100 is reclining. Between the reclining boulder and the wall there are some bricks f99 laid there to help holding the stone. The rest of the deposits are basically a lot of fine bricky layers, some more compact and some more sandy with pebbles. This big layer is just separated by a thin line, maybe a floor (number 6), more reddish and compact, that develops into an ash layer going South (number 8). Also standing out is a layer of light greyish soil (number 10), between two masses of brown multilayered deposits (numbers 9 and 11). At the bottom, abutting the last of the excavated steps of the staircase, we have a pebble floor (number 13). It is very thick and short, just appearing some meter and a half, but with some very large pebbles. It disappears southwards. The list of the features is as follows: 0) Red (5YR7/3) and grey (5YR8/1) mud bricks, 1) Upper surface, sometimes hard, sometimes sandy (7.5YR6/4), 2) Slightly more greyish layer (5YR8/1), not very clear, 3) Thin pebble lens, 4) Softer brown layer, 5) Bricky brown layer that, more to the south, combine lines of more bricky with more sandy layers (7.5YR6/4), 6)A thin reddish layer, harder, maybe a floor (…), 7) Softer red layer (see number 5), 8) Darker grey layer (10YR6/1), with ashes, that follows the red floor number 6 running south, 9) Another thick deposit of combination of bricky and softer and sandy layers (see number 5), 10) Light grey layer (10YR7/2), 11) Combined lines of bricky and crumbly (5YR6/6) with more compact dull layers (7.5YR6/4), 12) Faint greyish line over the pebble floor, 13) Heavy pebbled floor. [Input: S906CVP2.J] |