Descriptive Attribute	Value(s)
Architectural or Soil Locus?	Soil
Phase Description	Phase VIII: Brief (?) period of abandonment marked by a thin layer of (largely) chocolate brown soil...
Description	This fill level, as mentioned above, appears to be intentional dumping of waste, including a great deal of pottery and bone. The pottery consisted of a wide variety of types, from cooking pots and jars (but very few large storage vessel fragments) to a fair amount of fine ware — late-looking Nabataean painted ware, including a squat, one-handled juglet (approximately 90% reconstructed) and many bowl fragments and other tableware with self-same slip or thin red wash. The sherds were not of the smallish, churned-up, washed-down variety usually associated with the Temple area fill. The hundreds of fragments of bone found in this level — ranging from small bird bones to large, goat (ibex?)-looking, long bones — were all unburned, and there were no visible cut-marks on any surfaces. There were roof tiles scattered throughout this fill, with a heavy concentration in one 0.50 m square area, where the tiles were associated with small clumps of ashy-gray mortar (Munsell 5YR 6/1). One reconstructed tile was buried with this season's saved pottery in SP 25. Also found in this locus were a number of fragments of painted plaster, including red, green, yellow, blue, white and black. A few pieces had designs painted on them, including four fragments with a green acanthus-type leaf with black veins on a red background (slightly garish). The soil itself was fairly loose and coarse, Munsell 10YR 5/3.
Phase	VIII
Bottom (m)	Bottom elevation: 905.386 m.
Stage Description	Late occupational use indicated by a large area of dumped bone and pottery (Late Nabataean cookpots, jars and...
Top (m)	Top elevation: 906.306 m.
Stage	Stage 6
Definition	Refuse fill.