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HRC11.10
Season
2011
Narrative

Just after starting work this morning, bringing down Locus 4, we found the body of a small statuette (Ar/Ge.T31.4.CO.03), possibly a bull figurine, at 2284.59 masl. The statuette came out of the same area as the arrow head and the ceramic cup. We removed the beam in the NW corner (Locus 9) for dating (wiggle matching), the diameter of the widest part of the beam is 14 cm. The beams in the NE corner (Locus 6 & 8) were too decayed to take for wiggle matching, so samples were taken for radiocarbon dating (Ar/Ge.T31.6.C14.01; Ar/Ge.T31.8.C14.01). All of the beams in Locus 4 have been sitting on tan clay (both light and medium), which indicates that the clay layer is likely a floor, though it is unclear why the clay layer was so much higher in the NE corner. Additionally, there does not appear to have been very much sitting directly on the floor except for the burned beams, and there is no architecture. The surface of the floor is heavily stained black, but the ceramics are small pieces and do not appear to be from whole vessels.
There was a small concentration of primary flakes of obsidian at 2.5 m west from the SE corner of the trench. We took as C14 sample from the part of the beam in the SE corner (locus 7) from the part of the beam that was lying on the clay floor at 2284.65 masl. The beam was too decayed to take for wiggle matching. Towards the end of the day, following Adam’s advice, I decided to take down the area of clay in the NE corner down to the same level as the rest of the locus. Along the eastern wall, near a large fragment of decorated LBA pottery, we found a small ceramic object (Ar/Ge.T31.4.CO.04), which is sort of conical in shape with a rounded tip and a flattened end, at 2284.64 masl. It might be part of a figurine or a decorative nub on a pot. In the SE corner, we found a spindle whorl (Ar/Ge.T31.4.CO.05) at 2284.67 masl.