| Roster |
Date |
Author |
Record |
| Daily notes about recovery of elements |
2008-08-06 |
lR |
Finished excavating the southern baulk of k15, coming down to the southern wall of a1, f84. This wall was noticed earlier, at a higher elevation but the bricks were in such poor condition that it was difficult to tell whether it was a wall or brickfall so it was removed. The bricks below are nicer and we were able to articulate it in A19's north section, noticing that the bricks go down below the stone pavement f57, three courses deep. This suggests that the wall was built first, before the stone pavement. [Input: S806LR.j] |
| 2008-08-17 |
lC |
In the northern part of k101 we continued to remove the brickfall f94 in order to find a good face of wall f84 that seems to continue towards the west. At the beginning we thought that the mud bricks belonged to structure a2, but after rethinking the situation we realized that the bricks are horizontal (not vertical like a2) and thus pertinent to the wall f84. So it seems that the structure a2 abuts in part the wall, but the situation is still unclear. While cleaning the north sections, looking for the face of the wall f84, we found some courses of mud bricks above two courses of stones that could be the foundation of the wall, but only in the eastern part of the wall for about 100 cms in length. Towards the west only three courses of bricks are preserved and they seem to be lying above different layers of accumulation, ashy layer and red/orange soil, maybe bricky or burnt material. [Input: S817LC.j] |
| 2008-08-18 |
lR |
Wall f127 appears to abut f40 on the southern end, these are a series of horizontal bricks that go down several courses then ends approximately 15 cm then f126 wall emerges underneath. At first we assumed that wall f84 continued to run west, so that f127 and f84 was the same wall. This however is not the case. While removing f120, stones emerged, west of f85 wall. These stones continue to go down; at the moment are 3 stones deep but stop to the west. A thick vertical line is also visible where the stones end which would then make f84 a discrete wall with stone foundations at its western edge and another wall, f127 built in the west that abuts f84. [Input: S818lR.j] |
| Argument |
2008-09-13 |
lC |
The wall f84 in its western portion shows a big stone substructure with stones of medium and big size (to 45-50 cm). Above this substructure are preserved just few courses of mud brick. The wall finishes exactly where the stone pavement f108 (el 9149 @top) starts going toward west. Next to the western part of the wall f84 there is the wall f85 running north to south that abuts it. We don't know how far the stone substructure is continuing toward east, because when the wall f84 is again visible in its lower part, next to the wall f116 the stone substructure is not any more visible. Probably there isn't or with more difficulty is lower. Toward east we don't have the substructure but it is preserved (very badly) with a high elevation (el 9330), about one meter above the level of the stone pavement f57. So the wall f84 probably was a big wall constructed and used in the same time of the stone pavement f108 and the stone pavement f57 (that abuts the wall) with a higher elevation, showing a stepped organization of the structures. [Input: S916LC3.j] |
