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July 9, 1981

Plan p. 78

• Cassette tiles = 3
• Boxes Pottery = 8

We begin work in gamma 15, where cut 4 was not completed yesterday - pottery is included with that found in the zone Y-gamma 15 cut 4.  After cut 4 was dug up to the baulk in Y-15 and the adjacent tile fall in Y-Z 15-16 removed, we reached a level at approx. 80 cm. below surface (at Y 15 - deeper to the east because of rise in ground level).  We now proceed east from where the tile fall was removed, taking a 20 cm. cut in Y 16-17: this is actually a continuation of the depression created by the tile removal, but will be called cut 5 now as it is below yesterday's level.  The soil here is still a soft dark brown with stones - because of the slope of the hill, we may still be above the yellow-brown which predominates in the southern half of the trench.  There are still a number of tiles found, although not thickly as in the fall.  In gamma-15, a strip of darker soil with stones, tile, pottery, etc. occurs only on the western-most edge of the trench: to the east

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up to the ramp is dense yellow soil, containing no material, perhaps the edge of the possible fallen mudbrick.  When cut 4 here is completed, the strip of darker soil widens at the southern end - near the protective baulk left along the E-W wall there are a number of charcoal bits - all the material in this grid came from the dark soil which also contains a number of large stones.

Y-Z 16-18: in the eastern half of Y-Z 17 and in Y-Z 18, there are no tiles and very little pottery.  The soil becomes a finer yellow-brown.  We turn to the south and proceed into alph-beta 17-18 in order to see whether the "wall" extends further in this direction.  There is still little material here, with the exception of a fragment of tongue-cavetto crowning.

Excavation is next taken up in the trench dug earlier in beta-gamma 21-22 (see pp. 11-45).  A projection of tile fall left in situ along the east baulk here is removed.

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The N-S stone "wall" does not continue past grid beta 17 - at its N end ther is a spreading of small stones.  Cut 5 in Y-alpha 16-18 produced 3/4 box of pottery and 2/3 cassetta of tile.  The ramp is removed and a new one constructed in the previously dug western section of T-25.  Cut 5 proceeds in gamma-Z 15 moving east - dark stony soil removed from west side produces much coarseware; to the east is the yellow-brown with little material. Tile fall removing in beta-gamma 22 also produces much coarseware and 2 cassette of tiles.

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• Find # 5
• Gamma 15
• Cut 4
• Spindle Whorl
• Drawing
• Photo