There is a fair amount of bone coming out of locus 524, some of them burned. We found a piece of charcoal (3 cm in length) (Ar/Ge.T19.524.C14.02) near the center of the locus. There is another linear, black stain (with precisely defined edges), which runs east-west and is just west of the wall fall in the eastern part of the trench.
There is still a difference in soil color between the eastern and western halves of the area east of the LBA wall. The eastern part, characterized by a dark brown/gray (possibly ashy) soil will be L525. The western part, characterized by the same light yellow/brown soil as in earlier loci, will be L526. The area inside the circular black stain in the southern part of L523/526 will be L527. At this level, at the top of L525 and L526, the area of yellow/brown soil is surrounded on all four sides by the diffuse, black stains, including the southern side of L527. The line of diffuse black stains appears to be separating the area of yellow/brown soil from the area of dark brown/grey soil to the east. It seems to me this was also true of higher levels, except that the stains were only on the border between the two different soils (and also along the LBA wall in L523), and not as much on the north and south.
In L525, we found a large ceramic disk (“jar stopper”) in the SW corner of the locus (Ar/Ge.T19.525.CO.01). Out of the screened materials from L525, there was a small ceramic disk (“jar stopper”) (Ar/Ge.T19.525.CO.02) and small fragment of bone with a hole bored into it (Ar/Ge.T19.525.B.01). In the NW corner of the locus, just east of the large, dressed stone, we found a round bone pendant (Ar/Ge.T19.525.B.03). Just south of the large, dressed stone along the northern wall of the trench are thin (2-3 cm), spidery black lines. In L525, on the border between L525 and L526, there is a small patch where yellow (very bright) is coming up in the center of the locus.