In the morning the workers continued removing Locus 23, the cultural fill directly above the paved floor (Locus 24) in WSAC2. The extent of the floor is still questionable, in relation to the NW baulk and the SW wall; at the very end of the day, several large stones appeared running into the NW baulk but at a lower elevation than the ones already uncovered. The NW baulk area, after another pass in Locus 21 (the darker fill) has now become the lighter brown silty matrix, but is still not a 'floor' context as seen elsewhere at Tsaghkahovit, so I am unsure if the paved floor drops a level, or if a clay floor continues to the SW wall and has not been preserved. I troweled around the SW wall area and there is the beginning of a clay floor candidate between the last stones of the paved floor and the wall, with a much more compact and highly mottled constitution, and with more charcoal than in the layers above.
In the afternoon I had the guys cleaning the paved floor, which I declared locus 24, and also cleaning the stones that appear to be in a jumble in the NE area. I believe that these are associated with the jumble discovered last year in the doorway area, and probably represent some sort of doorway collapse. Some of the stones appear to rest on the stones of the floor, like last year's jumble. I declared this area Locus 25, but we did not have time at the end of the day to photograph or begin removing the stones.