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k 100
sg We decided to excavate the two vessels which have remained in k100, and then the andiron tomorrow, attempting to preserve the bridge. 
dy We excavated vessel i3 first, then vessel i10, and recorded them with pictures and took them out for possible reconstruction.

i 3
nr This vessel was the first excavated, a large storage type vessel which only appeared to be the the central part of a vessel. After clearing out the dirt from inside of it and from around the outside we saw that in fact it was the rim and part of the neck of a large open vessel, with the rim sitting and slightly embedded in floor f26. The depression made by the rim is still visible in the floor.
nf It is possible that this piece of broken vessel could have been in secondary use as a pot-stand. Peter Feldsner suggested that this is a common use for a vessel which is broken and then cut around the shoulder, embedded in the earth and plastered. This vessel is quite large, at least 50cm in rim diameter. If this was a pot stand the pot which would have been placed in it would have been even larger than this, and as the rim of the vessel was in front of a doorway, it would have completely blocked the doorway. At this time this still appears to be the most plausible explanation, although it could also have been used for storage of some type.

i 10
nr As we had made a small window through the dirt surrounding this vessel we had noted that it was probably upside down as we saw the ribbed decoration that is found on the shoulder of such a vessel. We excavated the dirt within this vessel, and then the dirt holding it in the niche on the outside, and took out the pieces of the vessel (the vessel was already fragmented at this point). 

f 232
df a
ds accumulation within the niche in wall f37 in k100. This accumulation was surrounds broken vessel i10 which was placed in the western end of the niche, with approximately 20 cm of the niche to the east. In this part of the niche there were bricks which supported the vessel, which was too small for the niche. These bricks were then plastered. There is an impression of the rim of the vessel, where it rested upside down, which has the number t3.