Descriptive Attribute	Value(s)
Designator	Wall
Context rating	Primary
General remarks	This is a wall or a wall base. The northern edge ends at locus 1068 where burnt dirt and carbon begins. On 7/14/02 this locus was divided into three loci. L1069 is the southern section that had the five visible courses and seems to run at a slightly oblique angle from the south to the northeast. L1075 is the northern section that is mainly one course of flat lying cobbles and pottery with the two flagstones possibly demarking an entrance as well as being the area where a large piece of slag was found. L1077 is the section between these other two loci of large boulders that do not seem to follow either of the patterns of the other two loci. KT1069.12 and KT 1073.7 are two halves of the same broken stone bowl. The bowl halves were inverted and used as wall cobbles for two different walls in my trench. On 7/14/2 this was split into three loci (1075 and 1077 as well). This wall had five coures. Their removal is described in detail in the daily journal. The top course was of smooth river cobbles placed into the wall at an approximatley 45 degree angle. The second course was of more of a mud matrix with pebbles. The third and fourth courses were medium sized cobbles and the final course, the fifth, was of large cobbles and boulders. There were also a few very flat and thin cobbles placed in this course in the southern baulk.
Strat below	1070, 1058, 1065, 1064
Strat above	1083
Strat contains	1058
Strat abuts	1068
Strat equals	1069, 1058
Top depth center	595.58
Top depth north	595.58
Top depth south	595.84
Bottom depth north	595.24
Bottom depth south	595.22
Dimension length	1.8
Dimension width	0.73
Start date	2002-07-09
End date	2002-07-18
Color	10YR 4/3 Brown
Texture	very compact silt
Composition	flagstones, boulders, cobbles, pottery, silt
Tentative Date	Middle Bronze Age
Has note	Contexts excavated in trenches were recorded using the "locus system." A locus is any discrete three-dimensional entity excavated in a trench. The key to the locus system is the recognition that a locus is any one thing. Differences in soil composition or texture are therefore as important as, for example, the difference between a pit and a wall. If two entities were distinct, they were considered separate loci and were therefore assigned separate locus numbers. It should also be noted that every context excavated in a trench was given a locus number and thus the trench itself is made up completely of excavated loci.