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Tuesday, 11 June 1985, morning

Pottery 2.5 latte

Tile 2

Plaster .25

We clean around the tree and stump in N-P 86 and cut away the topsoil to the east and west within the grids in question, encountering roots, tile (1 cassetta) and a small amount of plaster and pottery including a large fragment of the rim of a large impasto pot.  To the west of the tree the cut reaches a depth of 25 cm.  In Q-R 85 and R-S 86 we clean around a large stump group and clean down to expose the floor which is fairly well-preserved in Q-R 85 (the west half is cleaned, though uneven).  In western S 86 one well-preserved section emerges but the stump removed this winter (?) has left little more until the disturbed and fragmentary column base in S 87.  This yields a .25 casetta of plaster and less than 1 cassetta of tile.  Some bits of green vitrified matter, perhaps plaster, are bagged.  Among the handful of sherds, a stamped bucchero fragment, found upon the floor (No. 3).  In Q-R 85, which was previously unexcavated, the soil, essentially topsoil, is full of bits of plaster but there is no distinct stratum of debris over the floor.  In R 85 a largish fragment of a pan-tile is left jutting from the surface of the floor.

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19850008

19850008

• Find #3
• S 85
• resting on floor
• small fragment of stamped bucchero
  • drawing
  • photo

19850004

• Find #4
• N-P 86
• small bucchero fragment with relief decoration: palmette
  • drawing
  • photo

19850003

19850003

• Find #5
• R 86
• topsoil
• small bucchero fragment with stamped decoration: kneeling quadruped
  • drawing
  • photo

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Tuesday, 11 June 1985, afternoon

Pottery 1 latte

Tile 1.25

Plaster .33

We continued this morning's activities exposing the floor and now column base in Q-R 85, largely uncovered last season, also cleaning closer around the tree in N-P 85.  To the east of the tree the plaster content of the soil intensifies toward the level of the floor, and about 15 cm. up one begins to encounter distinct fragments of carbonized wood, which we bag; also a few chunks of grey/white "slag", burned tile.  We remove the stump to the north of the tree.  From the roots come fragments of large pots ad a distinctive tile fragment (No. 1).  In Q 85 the material resting on the floor consists largely of tile fragments, including some cover-tile fragments partially burned blue-green.  The floor itself is distinct, but distorted, as far as the stump in P 85.  The column base is, as recorded in the plan of last year's activities, fragmentary.  The stump to the south of the tree is removed in P 85, again with many tile fragments, virtually a tile fall, in the tree's roots.

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