Buildings through time: Structure Twelve

Friday, October 9, 2020 (7:50 AM)

The next in our series looking at the excavation of each major structure over time focuses on Structure Twelve.

Location of Structure Twelve within Trench P.

Trench P was extended in 2010 to investigate another large geophysical anomaly. Although initially considered to be the possible south end of Structure Eight, this anomaly proved to be a separate building, Structure Twelve. (ORCA)

July 2010 - wall lines of Structure Twelve emerge from the midden. (ORCA)

July 2010: Wall lines of Structure Twelve (and the beginnings of the later northern entrance annex) emerge from the midden. (ORCA)

July 2010 - the footprint of Structure Twelve becomes clearer. (ORCA)

July 2010: The footprint of Structure Twelve. (ORCA)

July 2010: Six days after the above photographs, the northern end of the building and it’s robbed-out eastern wall becomes clearer. (ORCA)

Structure Twelve 2010 plan. (ORCA)

Great progress – Structure Twelve in 2011. (ORCA)

Structure Twelve - Phases one and two

2012: Looking across the building from the northern entrance annex (a later addition). (ORCA)

2012: Looking across the building from the northern entrance annex – a later addition to the structure. (ORCA)

2012: View from above. (ORCA)

Structure Twelve 2012 plan. (ORCA)

2013: Planning under way in the interior after the removal of the midden baulk that ran across the centre. (ORCA)

Structure Twelve 2013 plan. (ORCA)

2014: The extent of the eastern wall stone-robbing that took place in antiquity is clear in this photograph (wall at bottom of picture).

Drone shot from 2015. (Scott Pike)

Drone shot from 2016. (Scott Pike)

2018: Covers in place to protect the floor surfaces. (Scott Pike)

Structure Twelve and Twenty-Eight

Excavation in 2019 revealed another later annex relating to Structure Twelve – this time outside its eastern entrance (pictured at the bottom of the photograph). (Scott Pike)