Figures:
1166-1066 North profile
1166-1066 West profile

The surface of the unit was covered with camelthorn and a heavy mat of vegetation--probably reflecting the nearness of the water-table.

Stratum I contained the salt-crust found in most excavations here just below the land surface -- UPL. The matrix was a series of finely laminated silt and sand mixture with some pottery, and the salt- crust was associated with decomposing pottery. Numerous flecks of a white mineral--probably a precipitate--were evident beneath the salt-crust.

Stratum II appears to have been a layer of wall collapse. It contained whole bricks and brick fragments in a silty sand matrix. The mudbrick wall at a slight angle to the North balk was already evident 20 cm below the datum, toward the top of this Stratum. The unfired circular clay feature illustrated in Figure x (???) is probably a small storage facility and resembles those in Unit 120x-10xx (Figure x ???). It is located just above the basal course of the brick walls in this unit and on the floor surface.

Stratum III is a layer of sandy silt with numerous lenses of white sand, "greasy" gray deposits that contained charcoal and what appeared to be ash, and coarse reddish sand. It is about 2-3 cm thick and slopes slightly from the south where it abuts the SU-3 (unexcavated) intact wall to the north (see Figure West wall). In several areas the sediment was yellow-orange, apparently a result of in situ burning; in addition, a small shallow pit (seen in the west profile) contained material burned in situ. The apparent hearths, laminated structure, and position at the base of the SU-3 wall indicate this as a floor/occupation deposit.

Stratum IV is a relatively clean sandy silt containing few sherds or other cultural materials. It may have been deposited as foundation material for the mudbrick building in this unit. Stratum V is similar to Stratum IV in color and contents and both may represent heavily decomposed brick wall material.

Stratum VI is similar to Stratum II, in that it contains bricks and brick fragments that may have been deposited as wall collapse or from the leveling of wall debris. The bricks seem to be the gezira variant, in that they contain no obvious sherds and are made of coarse white sand, as opposed to the brown, chaff-tempered bricks that often contain sherds (Figure x????). In fact Stratum VI seems to be in the same architectural pattern as some of the other excavation units, in which the lowest levels of occupation were apparently made predominantly with the gezira bricks, whereas the upper levels are usually made with the ordinary brown mudbricks. The matrix is a silty sand.

Stratum VIA is made up of discontinuous lenses of silty sand containing fragments of gezira bricks.

Stratum VII is a sandy silt with some brick fragments, sherds, and occasional flecks of charcoal. It may well have been a floor of a structure whose walls are not in the excavation unit. The circular unfired clay features at 107 cm and 111 cm depth (Figure x???) may well have been storage features like that in Stratum II and observed elsewhere on the site.

In general summary of this unit, it is important to our stratigraphic analyses because it shows two clear levels of occupation separated by a floor. This floor is only about 3 cm thick but is well preserved. The superpositioning of the two apparent floors in this unit may indicate a continuous occupation over a relatively short period, with one episode of rebuilding. But this interpretation is tentative. In the next season of occupation this unit will be extended horizontally to reveal the rest of the walls of this structure.

Summary of 1166/1066
Two distinct occupations are represented in this unit. The upper deposits, Strata I-III including the SU-3 wall seen in Figure X (North wall), contain one distinct occupation surface (Stratum III) which is associated with the intact wall in the north end of the square. The occupation surface is overlain by collapsed wall material (Stratum II) and the unit is capped by the UPL of Stratum I.

Directly below the Stratum III occupation surface and representing an earlier occupation are two probably collapsed wall deposits, the upper one (Stratum IV) apparently made up of heavily decomposed bricks such that no intact bricks are observed and is probably the foundation deposit for the upper units. This may indicate that a substantial amount of time passed between the two occupations or that lower was were purposefully knocked down and leveled. Below the wall collapse deposits is another possible floor (Stratum VII) though this deposit was into the water table at the time of excavation making a determination of structure difficult.