Locus 9 is the area under the rock pile (locus 7), though smaller than the pile itself.
The matrix in this locus is a medium brown gravelly sand with lenses of yellow clay.
Locus 9 is almost entirely ringed by stones, except for a gap in the north. This gap is partially filled by an arc of clay, but our efforts to find the rest of the arc didn’t pan out.
There is a wall (3 courses) running N-S along the southern edge of the locus and another wall running N-S along southern half of the western side of the locus. On the eastern side, there were 7 large stones, which we removed on 7/26 and beneath those stones was another line of 3 running NNW-SSE, sloping downwards.
While digging in Locus 9 we found two very large bird bones, as well as evidence of suslik burrows.
Coming down, the shovels hit a sheep/goat radius and ulna at 2211.173 masl, in the SW corner of the locus. Another set (from the other side) was found in Locus 18 (just below Locus 9), It is not impossible (judging from size) that these are from the same animal, which would be an argument from combining Locus 9 and Locus 18.
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