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Description		The soil in this room has a Munsell color of a Light Reddish Brown 2.5YR 6/3, but it changes dramatically to a very ashy consistency of a Munsell Black 7.5YR 2.5/1, particularly at the bottom of the trench where it is assumed that a high concentration of burning took place. Chunks of cement were not as prevalent here as they were in other loci, indicating that the major collapse was sustained after this fill was deposited.
Architectural or Soil Locus?		Soil
Definition		N Rooms Chamber 5, Earth and Debris
Underlies		None.
Stage		Stage 5
Phase		XI
Stage Description		Collapse and abandonment.
Phase Description		Phase XII: Use levels, robbing and abandonments continue.
Location		To the north of the curvilinear chamber Locus 5.
Phase		XII
Size		3.23 m north south-by-2.78 m east west.
Combined with		Probably can be combined with Loci 19 and 21, which are also the result of collapse and collection of debris.
Phase Description		Phase XI: Further collapse post- CE 5th c., possibly the result of the earthquake of CE 512. Major collapses in the Lower Temenos lead to the continued accumulation of fill. At this time the East Colonnade collapses significantly onto a bed of accumulated soil, as does the entablature of the East Exedra.
Overlies		the rectangular room walls and floor, Locus 16.
Preserved Height		1.10 m.
Bottom (m)		Closing elevation: 899.530 m.
Top (m)		Opening elevation: 900.630 m.

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