The black staining continues down in L526, though the soil on the sides of the locus look more grey/brown than yellow/brown. We took a piece of charcoal as a sample for radiocarbon dating (Ar/Ge.T19.526.C14.01) from an area of black staining, just south of the large, dressed stone on north wall of the trench. We found another piece of charcoal just north of L527 and east of the LBA wall which we took as well (Ar/Ge.T19.526.C14.02). We found a piece of worked stone (Ar/Ge.T19.526.L.01).
In L527, we found a piece of worked bone (Ar/Ge.T19.527.B.01). After going down 7 cm, it became clear that the circular stain isn’t marking a clear feature.
After coming down in L526, most of the locus had turned to the brown/grey soil (like L525), so I opened up a new locus (L529). There is still an area of yellow/brown soil in the NW corner of the locus. At the bottom of L526/top of L529 there is a large posthole which is L528 on the northern edge of the locus. In L529, we found a piece of worked stone (Ar/Ge.T19.529.L.01) in the NE corner of the locus. We found a piece of worked bone (Ar/Ge.T19.529.B.01) near the LBA wall in the NW corner of the locus. We found a small piece of groundstone (Ar/Ge.T19.529.L.02) just east of the LBA wall at about the center of the locus. A large number of bones (with some ceramics and obsidian) came out of the NW corner of L529. We found another small piece of groundstone (Ar/Ge.T19.529.L.03), just south of the northern wall of the trench. We took some charcoal for dating (Ar/Ge.T19.529.C14.01) from the southern part of the locus.