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Classification: Stone / Architectural Stone

Finding Type: Clamp Cutting

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Material: Sandstone

Images

Photograph 05dphp1117 by Ruth Bordoli.

Description

Clamp cuttings 6-8. Complete but broken block fallen from the northeast corner of the South Platform. There is a perpendicular cutting, number 6, in one end of the block, at left in the photograph, positioned closer to the front of the block than the back. The much larger cutting, number 7, found with some of the carbonized wooden clamp in place, is diagonal to the long axis of the block, its end approximately in the center of the rear edge. A third cutting, number 8 at right, was for a timber tying the block back into the rubble core of the platform.

Dimensions

Block length: c. 90 cm. Block width: 55 cm. \nWidth of the end of cutting 6: 7 cm. Length of cutting: 20 cm. \nWidth of the end of cutting 7: 15 cm. Length of cutting: c. 45 cm. \nWidth of the end of cutting 8: 7 cm. Length of cutting: 20 cm.

Context

Palatial Complex, Monumental Entrance.

Publication

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