After short life of this defensive measure, the large quantity of dense structural remains, artifacts, and sediment that soldiers had dug up from lower deposits in and around Buildings B2 and B3 and piled alongside the trench slumped and washed back down into it. Contains debris from use of World War II ditch as well as remains from use and disuse of Early–Middle Roman building complex. Cf. Deposit B18.
Mixed sediment in narrow, sinuous ditch that German soldiers cut through southeast ridge during World War II.
Soil matrix
Heterogeneous but predominantly brown (10YR 5/3), loose to very loose, sandy silt to silty sand but variable texture with many pebbles to cobbles (1-10 cm range); sparse pockets of intermingled charcoal and ash and calcareous chunks.
Stratigraphic associations
TRB0803-001 [upper level, north central tr. B-08-03]+TRB0803-007 [middle-lower level, central tr. B-08-03]+TRB0804-005 [middle-lower level, northeast central tr. B-08-04]+TRB0805-002 [west tr. B-08-05]+TRB0806-002 [east tr. B-08-06]+(TRB0807-003 [north central tr. B-08-07]+TRB0807-005 [northeast corner, tr. B-08-07]+TRB0808-005 [east tr. B-08-08]+TRB0809-003 [middle level, central tr. B-08-09].