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Photos of trench.

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July 11, 1972

Rectangle 5

Continued cleaning the stones that appeared yesterday in grid G/3.  Two finds in stratum containing carbon (B) on level of stones\' upper surface:

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• Find #1
• F-G/3 (B)
• Rocchetto, ab. half preserved
• Drawing
• Photo

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Decided not to work further down in this area around the stones for the moment.

When polishing "red area" ( see map on p. 12 ) visible as a strip through grids J-F-G/1-2, we noticed how it seemed to be in line with the western side of the N-S wall of the lower buliding cleared by E.N. in courtyard area to the south.  The hard grayish "galestrose" soil in connection with it might be part of same feature; the width of this gray, along with the red strip, was traced northwards and showed up well in a low-cut E-W section in G-H/2-3.

If this really is the same wall in its continuation northwards, it is remarkable that it is preserved

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to such a height.  When going down further into a lower level, this will more easily be ascertained.

This means that the red strip including the gray (=mudwall's interior part) shouldn\'t be removed, at least not at this stage of digging.

In grid I and J/2-3, we started going down through the burnt stratum, the upper surface of which over this area was noted before.  After about 10 cm, a somehwat harder surface, partly colored light red, appeared, noticeable esp. in J/3.  The soil contained carbon, was of a yellowish/red/black color.

Ab. 1 box of tiles from the area (not a compact tile layer) and not very much pottery, but some very fine pieces (bucchero), most of them from approx. area where grids J/2, J/3, I/2, and

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I/3 meet.

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• Find #3
• Two fragments, not joining, of bucchero rim with plastic beans
• Drawing
• Photo

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• Find #4
• Two fragments, joining, of bucchero rim with double guilloche pattern
• Drawing
• Photo

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• Find #5
• Low small cup of bucchero, whole profile pres.
• Drawing
• Photo

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• Find #6
• Small cup, three joining fragments, redburnt bucchero
• Drawing
• Photo

All these sherds were found on approx. depth of +30.05 (level measured with the instrument by Hans).

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A few pieces of a thickness ab. 1 1/2 cm were left in situ in J/3, on top of the distinct redburnt surface here.  It is still not clear if this burnt surface is a pavement level.

It is remarkable that this type of pottery which indicates "lower building" was found in so high a level.

When finishing off this area towards west in grid J/2, we found a frieze cavetto frag. in connection with mudbrick/wall plaster area in J/2.  The mudbrick/wall plaster area here might belong not to upper pres. part of N-S wall of lower building but rather to upper crosswall between Rect. 6 and 7 or fill in foundation trench cut for this crosswall.

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• Find #1
• I-J/0-1
• Str. A
• Small bucchero fragment with stamped flower; upper surface gray, lower surface reddish brown
• Drawing
• Photo

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At this point, the trench might be called complicated.

It was not decided to make a 1 m wide cut E-W through grids I/0-3 starting from N-S wall of upper building, with the purpose of defining the relation between the stone fill of the pavement in 0, the mudbrick (mud) wall (?) in 1/2 and the burnt stratum in 2/3.

The stonefill lifted in I/0-1 was ab. 20 cm thick, compact, containing very little tile and pottery frags.  the fill finished eastwards right where the "red area" showed up on previously dug surface in a N-S line in the middle of I/1, as indicated on map on p. 12 .

Immediately below the stonefill, we got into a strikingly redburnt stratum

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in which, from about 5 cm down, big fragments of pithos and tiles turned up.  Also, in I/1, part of the upper wall of a pithos appeared, perhaps in situ.   In this level, along line defining red area westwards were irregular stones running approx. N-S, with some clayey soil visible in between, indicating probable line of wall.  Possibly we have struck west side of N-S wall of lower building cleared by E.N. in courtyard in its continuation northwards, as supposed before.

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• Find #10
• I/0
• Redburnt stratum
• Fragment of redburnt bucchero handle with lines of stamped cocentric circles
• Drawing
• Photo