In the morning, swept down SLT 14 locus 9 floor again for a photo, after removing the locus 10 clay blob yesterday. In the NW corner of the operation, we're also going further down in the locus 4 floor, which we'll make locus 12, where the top of locus 12 will be the bottom of the locus 4. While troweling in locus 12 we came across several articulated vertebrae of a large mammal spine against the W baulk. It's also running a bit under the first large stone of the locus 6 wall, which is floating above the floor and appears a bit dangerous as it could teeter at any moment. Given the conditions, I decided to photograph and sketch the locus 6 wall and bring it down. Unfortunately, my datum stone was on the locus 6 wall, so now I will need to establish a Datum B. It seemed particularly necessary to do this now as the locus 11 wall also appears to run underneath it. I need to expose this little wall more since it seems to be demarking a break in the bedrock (as in SLT10), where it may be built against a cut in the bedrock on its east side, but has more soil on it's west side. The locus 11 wall also gives the impression that it's made of recycled stones, perhaps from a prior incarnation of housing renovated by the mobile inhabitants) because most of the walls are faced, but the faces are not aligned in a uniform direction.
While digging down in locus 9 floor into locus 12 layer in SE corner, I decided to take a sample of the locus 9 floor for flotation consisted of 4 cloth bags (Ar/Ts.SLT14.9.ss.1 a-d).
In SLT 13 we got another good radiocarbon from the burned area of locus 9 near the south baulk by the basin. In the remainder of the trench, we're still screening locus 6 soil, which is particularly dark and wet do to evening rains. We finally came down on a stone surface below the locus 7 stationary basin, which is likely stone bedrock and found a nice Iron III sherd on the surface.