| Description (summary) |
2010-01-19 |
sC |
This is a natural accumulation in k73 (below f55), soft in consistence, a bit clayish and fine in texture; when removed it is crumbly and a bit dusty. When picked f61 is light brown/reddish in color while it is graysh when it dries off. This feature is characterized by the presence of phytolitics, small pebbles and pottery sherds; laminations have been noticed in the S portion of the square as well as some red lenses (indicating the presence of some isolated mud-bricks). Unlucky when we assigned f61 to the natural accumulation in k73 we were thinking to have removed completely the backfill of the 'German' trench which interests part of the N baulk of the locus (C10). This trench was dug in 2001 during a survery of the tell mound by a team of the university of Tubingen, directed by Prof. Peter Pfalzner (the trench, running W-E, is wide aprox. 100cmx100cm). However, while digging f61 we found some plastic nylon close to the NE section and thus, it is likely that f61 can be partially contaminated, in this portion of the locus, by the backfill of the German trench (C10), and it is not only a natural-accumulation. f61 consists, in the N portion of the locus, by mixed soil which is the back-fill of a trench running W-E (C10, wide aprox. 100cmx100cm). This trench was dug in 2001 during a survery of the Tell Terrace by a team of the university of Tubingen, directed by Prof. Peter Pfalzner. Therefore, f61 has partially a natural accumulation within k73 and partially mixed with the backfill of the natural-made accumulation in . However, f61 however is not only a natural accumulation, since part of the N baulk of k73 is not the rexult of a natural accumlulation but is the back-fill of a W-E trench, f65, (originally called C10, wide aprox. 100cmx100cm) dug in 2001, which partially could have contaminated the N portion of the locus. While digging f61, we noticed some fragments of nylon coming out from the N baulk of the locus (close to the NW corner of k73), which indicate that there there was the bottom of the trench dug in this portion of the Tell Terrace during the 2001 excavation season. [Input: U119SC.j] |