Introduction

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In the 2001 season, T 28 North ( 1 ) was opened on the South Slope below the workshop in order to investigate a low spike on magnotometer readings of the area.  That trench revealed what was interpreted as a terrace or a defensive wall and was believed to be Archaic in date (TBK II 2001 p. 139 ).  This feature, now interpreted as a retaining wall, was further defined in the 2002 and 2003 seasons (KT II 2002 1 and EL/DC I 2003 1 ).  The highly worn materials from different time periods within mixed strata indicated the soil below the wall was largely erosional wash, indicating the wall's retaining function (KT II 2002 p. 177 ).

At the beginning of this season (2005), three trenches were opened to the east of T 28 N ( 1 ) with the designations of T 42 A ( 1 ), T 42 B ( 1 ), and T 42 C ( 1 ), with the hopes of further tracing the path of the wall as it continues east from T 28 N ( 1 ).  T 42 B ( 1 ) and T 42 C ( 1 ) found

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the wall almost immediately and T 42 A ( 1 ) did so upon extending north.

The continuance of the wall through T 42 provided the impetus for the opening of T 43.  T 43 aims to:

1. gain a better sense of the south/southeast slope in the area south of and below the workshop
2. continue defining the retaining wall discovered to the west
3. search for any evidence of the construction date of the wall
4. search for evidence of a kiln associated with the workshop
5. search for potential architectural features below the wall

Due to the placement of the dirt dump from the excavation of the workshop, following the wall requires that a large trench be dropped on the other side, in the hopes of finding more of the wall.

Two four by two mketer trenches will be established (see diagram, page 11 ), T 43 A ( 1 ) and

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T 43 B, sharing their south and north baulks, respectively.  T 42 A (to be excavated by Sonia Rohter -- SAR III 2005 1 ) is bounded by the master grid points 222-224 E and 68-72 S.  T 43 B is bounded by 222-224 E and 72-76 S.  The long, narrow trench they form aims to reveal the wall as it follows the workshop and the contour of the hill.