.bk A15
.fl Mx09jw
.fd daily journal for Mx09
.ei jw
.ed Mx09
.rd Mx09
.ri jw

-dy took hardness measurements with a soil penetrometer on elements of the platform in k14 that were south of the kilns, a30 and a31 in k13.  At the end of last season, it was postulated that the hard, dense material along the north and west edges was either clay in a varigation tank or was alkaline kiln ash that had been dumped near the kiln.  However, observation this year, after weathering, lead to a different conclusion.  Now, it appears as if the platform may be the northwestern corner of a room of a pise building.  There is a sharp contrast between the hard outer material (which has linear interior edges and the soft accumulation contained within.  (there is a patch of very soft, fine ashy material in the SW corner, which may be the fill of a pit that was dug into the accumulation.  The pise walls are a minimum of 30cm thick (the outside edges had been cut during excavation) and appear to be founded on the bricky material from the deteriorated palace walls.  The portion of the walls that have not been excavated are more than 30cm high, and appear to continue into the east and south baulks.  Although it is likely that theses four elements have already been assigned feature numbers by okk, supervisor of the A15 north excavations, the data is not available.  So, to assure that these descriptive data are preserved, the four features, N-S wall, E-W wall, accumulation, and fill will be assigned A15 south feature numbers f371, f372, f373, and f374 respectively.  No markers are available to take relays at this time.  Sketch 110e illustrates the situation.

f 371
df w
ds N-S pise wall in the SW corner of k14.  On the south, it disapperars into the south baulk, while to the north it joins E-W pise wall, f372.  The extant portion, more than 30 cm high is founded on red, bricky material, typical of the deteriorated Phase 2 palace walls.  Although the west face has been partially excavated, the extant thickness exceeds 20cm.  The interior edge is linear, indicating that the walls enclose the SW corner of a room.
c# 10YR7/2
co light gray
hd greatly exceeds 4.5 kg/sq cm
tc bo f372

f 372
df w
ds E-W pise wall in the SW corner of k14.  On the east, it disapperars into the east baulk, while to the west it joins N-S pise wall, f372.  The extant portion, more than 30cm high, is founded on red, bricky material, typical of the deteriorated Phase 2 palace walls.  Although the north face has been partially excavated, the extant thickness exceeds 20cm.  The interior edge is linear, indicating that the walls enclose the SW corner of a room.
c# 10YR7/2
co light gray
hd greatly exceeds 4.5 kg/sq cm
tc bo f371

f 373
df a
ds accumulation contained by walls f371 and f372.
c# 10YR6/4
co light yellowish brown
hd 2.25 kg/sq cm
tc bo f371

f 374
df fi
ds a pocket of fine, powdery, ashy material found in the SW corner of f373
c# 10YR5/2
co grayish brown
hd 0.75 kg/sq cm
tc si f373