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Context Description:
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Room 4 was enclosed by old walls; it was very long, narrow and irregular and may well have been subdivided, but the cross-walls had gone. It was brick-paved in the middle period, and circ. 1.00 m. below the remains of the pavement were signs of an earth floor of the first period. In the north corner was an oven of bricks and clay built round an ordinary bee-hive-shaped bread-oven, diam. 0.60 m. (Fig. 41 and P1. 49c), and further along the NW wall were remains of a second similar oven. In the NW wall were two doors of the first period, both walled up. The SE wall was peculiar because on the burnt brick foundations there were eight courses of mud bricks normally laid, then a course of bricks set vertically on edge, one of flat bricks, one of bricks on edge and again four courses laid flat; all seemed to belong to the first period and illustrate a method of wall-construction to which in this period we have no parallel elsewhere.2
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