Today I was moved into an area south of the Church. After finding of a well paved room one square farther south, Dr. Schuler decided we should finish the excavation of the room connecting with it.
The room has door jams that all open into the room. With the ability to lock the doors, this would mean that the room must have been private property. The small room to the east would have likely been the living quarters and the big room would have been some kind of gathering place. It will be interesting to see when the excavation is complete what kind of floor we will find. We might see old remains of the Roman occupation.
After clearing against many walls and doing some reconstruction work, I find it interesting that the Byzantine builders did not use any kind of mortar. It seems that the weight of the walls is enough to keep everything together. With the foundations set on bed rock, as I came to learn yesterday, it would appear that the buildings were quite stable.
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