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Short Description:
Blockup of door, mid dark greyish brown, silty sand with 90% inclusion of poorly sorted angular stones (ranging 6-50cm), pebbles, and lime mortar.
Issued to
John Cauchi | 20/08/2019
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Interpretation

    • Intentional blocking of door within wall (1002).
      • Chris Scott
    • 28-8-2019

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Description

  • Mid
  • Dark greyish brown
  • Silty sand
  • 90% inclusion of angular stones poorly sorted ranging from 50 to 6 cm Pebbles Lime mortar Some stones have facing to the inside Lime stone Sand stone 30 50
  • L: 1.18 W: 0.89 D: 0.28
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Finds

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Feature

  • Feature: MDC_14
    • Large east-west aligned building
  • Feature: MDC_21
    • Block up doorway within wall F16, probably contemporary with construction of F17 and reconfiguration of earlier walls to form structure F14

Site Photos

  • Photo: MDC_194293
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    • Blocked up doorway in east-west aligned wall within trench 1. Scale 1 x 1 m

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