| Roster |
Date |
Author |
Record |
| Daily notes about recovery of elements |
2001-08-02 |
lr |
We excavated the area around the pit a13 and cut f189, in some cases mixing both the brown and the clay chunky layer together. When the clay layer was removed we encountered a hard surface, which we presumed was the stone pavement of the courtyard. After cleaning the area we noticed that the material was not stone but fired baked bricks, f194. The bricks are a pink and yellow color (when moist) and cover the bottom of the circular pit cut f189 with a chunky clay material running North-South in the East. This may be a possible damaged area by the pit cut f189. After excavating the circle in its entirety we noticed large stones forming the same shape as the cut, circular. We then decided to excavate in the Southern portion of k108 since we can follow the stones from the pavement. What we found was that the stones sit on top of the bricks and we have hypothesized that the stones were cut by the pit since the stones from the pavement form a circular shape and the bricks are below. However, we do not know if the bricks belong to the stone courtyard as an installation or whether they represent an earlier floor. [Input: L815LR.j] |
| Argument |
2001-08-02 |
lr |
We have two possible situations, one that the fired bricks are an earlier phase, a pavement under the palace or that the fired bricks are part of a drainage system since it is in line with the drain found in A13, and may continue underneath the Eastern portion of the stone pavement. [Input: L815LR.j] |
| 2002-09-29 |
lR |
there are several arguments for the eroded areas; one that the bricks were cut by the pit a17 that left gaps of disintegrated bricks, or two that the presence of water seeped it through the cracks and eroded small areas. One eroded area measures 40 x 10 cm linear in shape running north to south across 3 rows of bricks. There is a small circular hole in one of the northern stones that may have funneled water causing the eroded bricks. It is unclear whether this circular hole is natural or man made but was in place when the stone pavement was in use and therefore inadvertently caused water to funnel through this hole and settle on the baked bricks possibly eroding them over time. [Input: -MX12-99.j] |
| Options (alternatives) |
2011-02-02 |
lC |
For a more detailed description see a24 [Input: V202LC.j] |