Descriptive Attribute	Value(s)
Description	This not a sealed locus, but it is comprised of compacted beaten earth with significant numbers of architectural fragments, most important of which are fragments of plaster. It lenses into burnt deposits of Locus 8 and has ash lenses of a Munsell very dark gray 7.5YR 3/1.
Architectural or Soil Locus?	Soil
Definition	Collapse
Underlies	Loci 1, 2, 7, 9.
Stage	Stage 5
Phase Description	Phase XII: Use levels, robbing and abandonments continue. Phase XIII: Major collapses continue into the Islamic period.
Stage Description	Second abandonment.
Phase	XII XIII
Bonds to	All fill loci.
Overlies	Locus 12.
Bottom (m)	Closing elevation: -1.10 m below Sub datum Pt. 71 A, or 898.78 m.
Abuts	The Locus 5 steps and the ‘Byzantine Platform’ on the south and Locus 10 on the north.
Combined with	None as of yet.
Size	3/4 of what has been excavated in the east side of the trench. This locus became L-shaped, measuring 2.84 m east west-by-5.70 m north south.
Location	From the fifth column in the north to the Byzantine Wall. It lies between the Locus 10 wall on the north to the Locus 5 steps in the south.
Top (m)	Opening elevation: - 0.10 m below Sub datum Pt. 71 A, or 899.78 m.