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Drawing: section diagram; labels: before war · Surface soil, 1a, 2, 3, Street 1
3. Rough stones, red earth, no tiles - footing trench for wall, darker soil than further west
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DIARY 1086 cont from p. 1084 a washing of earth. Found drain in south end of alley. Dug strat 2(5) here of red, clean, hard packed soil - not much different if at all from 2(4) and 2y, see section p. 1003. 2(5) fills in places near east calco-wall which may well have been footing trench for this wall. Man who built wall could see it. So fill is probably antedates wall, that is the strat (1003-3) which was the trench was sunk into now occupied with 2(5) However, 3 in places appears to have gone right up to wall. Top of 1003-3 appears to have been a ground level, hard & white, and its upper surfaces flush with bottom of orthostates on west wall. Removed natural accumulation found in drain over drain floor p1005-1. Water appears to have run south in drain as lower part is 0.025 m. below upper north end. as excavated. Removed strat 3, (1005-3) a hard white fill and dug further into footing trench where this could be traced near west wall or rather along it (2^3). 2 y continues down below level of th. soft red earth, few stones, no sherds to date in footing trench. what I took to be drain floor (above) may
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