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Code
LK11.38
Season
2011
Narrative

Today we cleaned WSM3 for final photos and spent the rest of the day focusing on locus 94 and 95 of WSN. The latter, a new locus, extends the excavations of the levels beneath the floor yet further to the southeastern limit of the interior of the room. It became clear in the course of excavating locus 94 that there was at least one large depression--not well enough defined to call a pit, and in all likelihood natural--in the northeastern end of the locus. This pit-like area extends to a great depth (that is, a dark silty clay continues) and there is clearly not time to complete it. Given that there are almost no materials in the "pit", and given that I had yet to start the final "slice" of the lower levels of the room to the southeast, I decided to open locus 95 in this area. All in all, the stratigraphy in room N is bewildering. Several stone features in the room, including the flagstone floor and the hearth and the trapezoidal stone in the center of the room, appear to be resting atop cultural matrices, i.e. the tannish clay or dark/black burn layer. In several areas, it appears a burning episode marked by the thin black deposit sits just below the "final" floor. We have yet to explore fully the short wall or stone feature located just at the base of the northwest wall, near the doorway. Alas, probably won't have time this season.