Description (17 properties)

Size		Approximately 3.70 m north south-by-6.70 m east west.
Architectural or Soil Locus?		Soil
Preserved Height		2.59 m.
Overlies		Floor of the north chambers 2 and 3.
Combined with		Locus 21 the fill and debris in the south structure, and perhaps Locus 15 the fill of the Rectangular Structure Locus 16.
Definition		N Rooms, Chambers 2 and 3, Debris and Collapse
Stage		Stage 5
Phase		XI
Stage Description		Collapse and abandonment.
Phase Description		Phase XII: Use levels, robbing and abandonments continue.
Bottom (m)		Closing elevation: 900.569 m.
Phase		XII
Description		The soil of this destruction level is a Munsell Brown 7.5YR 5/3. It is a consistent thick dusty deposit with collapsed ashlars and opus sectile elements, crushed brick, gravel aggregate, and mortar. The ceramic corpus is primarily composed of broken flue pipes or tubuli.
Top (m)		Opening elevation: 901.136 m.
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.
Location		On the north side of the trench.
Underlies		Locus 9.

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