Descriptive Attribute	Value(s)
Architectural or Soil Locus?	Soil
Definition	Compacted Brown Layer
Overlies	Loci 7, 9, 10-12, 16-19, 21, 22, 24, 31, 32, 40-42, 57-59, 70, 71, 74, 75, and 77-81.
Phase Description	Phase VIII: Brief (?) period of abandonment marked by a thin layer of (largely) chocolate brown soil...
Stage Description	Floor of the Theater robbed out followed by the first period of abandonment identified by a thin layer of...
Stage	Stage 4
Phase	VIII
Bottom (m)	Closing Levels: 905.466 masl at southwest, 905.326 masl at northeast.
Top (m)	Opening Levels: 905.576 masl at southwest, 905.516 masl at northeast.
Description	The soil color is 5 YR 4/3 (Reddish Brown). A hard-packed "chocolate" brown layer, found all over the trench just above the lowest architectural features, such as floors and floor bedding, foundations, stylobates, curbs, and wall bases. It has some rubble and architectural fragments, but is mostly clear of such debris and without large amounts of artifactual material. It clearly represents an abandonment period and dates before the major reuse phases (see below), but after floor robbing in areas such as the East Corridor. Material remains from this locus, since it occurs all over the trench, will be useful in helping us date the period of abandonment which come between primary and secondary use of the temple complex in almost every part of the building.