Descriptive Attribute	Value(s)
Architectural or Soil Locus?	Soil
Description	This soilo of this locaus is a 5 YR 4/4 (Reddish Brown). It is a silt layer, free of rubble inclusions, just above the hard-packed soils of the first abandonment phase (see Locus 6, above). It represents a depositional layer of a second abandonment period, just prior to the catastrophic collapse events which brought down the walls and columns in Trench 62. The locus was loaded with pottery and other artifactual materials, making this layer very different from other soil loci in Trench 62. The soft, loose-packed silt and pottery may represent alluvium (wash) from somewhere else; or the soil may have been windblown, collecting around an existing pottery dump. It is impossible to say for certain, but the large amounts of pottery may tell us something interesting after analysis.
Top (m)	Opening Levels: 905.756 masl.
Stage Description	2nd abandonment period: deposition of soil.
Bottom (m)	Closing Levels: 885.396 masl.
Definition	Silt layer.
Stage	Stage 7
Phase	X
Phase Description	Phase X: Site abandonment post major collapse dating to the Byzantine period from the CE 4th to 5th c, Upper...