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Context Description:
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Room 2, the central court; this also was earth-floored. The doors in its SW and SE walls were original but there had been no doors in the NE wall; the door now giving on Room 5 was cut through the brickwork and the rough sides were mud-plastered; it had a rounded top in the form of an arch and was very low, only 1.65 m. high and 0.70 m. wide - the "arch" was very irregular, but this seemed to be due to the collapse of the bricks in the wall above rather than to crooked cutting in the first place. Further along to the north was a second opening, also late; this too had a rounded top and the cut sides had been plastered smoothly with mud, but the lower part of the opening (originally cut to floor level) had been walled up with burnt brick so as to leave a hatch 0.75 m. high and 0.65 m wide with its base 0.70 m. above the floor; that this was a late alteration was shown by the fact that the hatch cut away half of the jamb of the door-way between Rooms 5 and 6, so that the door could scarcely have been any longer in use.2
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