Started in the morning with taking down Locus 26, the matrix against the NW baulk that was abutting the paved floor and which yesterday we discovered was covering more of the paved floor. We exposed stones that are at a lower elevation than the stones of Locus 24, running to the same extent about half a meter before the SW wall and the doorway. After cleaning this area up I had the guys trowel the paved floor and screen it as Locus 24 and then sweep to take photographs, which took a long time because it was pretty windy today and the dust was not leaving the trench. I took photographs before lunch of the paved floor. The nature of the linear stone feature against the partition wall continues to mystify, as we cleaned around this area today on the paved floor and most of the stones stop about 5-10 cm before the feature.
After lunch I declared Locus 28 as the rubble spilling from the doorway, set into a mixture of the overburden and the cultural fill and reaching down to the floor. I wanted to see a) what the clay floor is doing in the doorway, and if I can make any headway in identifying it in the SW area of the room and b) to expose the two faces of the doorway and see if there is anything inside other than rubble fill. The guys removed several of these stones at the end of the day, which revealed a scarp within the doorway without much going on inside of it other than the division between the loamy, blackish soil and the lower levels of the cultural fill. I declared Locus 29 as the top of this doorway - the black-brown loam - extending from the face of the wall to the SW baulk, and the guys started taking this down at the very end of the day. A few stones started appearing that are also probably doorway fill.
Gegharotzis came in the late afternoon for a site tour.