After short life of this defensive measure, large quantity of dense structural remains, artifacts, and sediment that soldiers had dug up from lower deposits in and around Octagon and piled alongside trench slumped and washed back down into it. Contains debris from use of World War II ditch as well as remains from use and collapse of Octagon. Cf. Deposit B10.
Published as
Rife2022a, pp. 105-107, 171-172, figs. 3.29, 3.77, 3.79-3.81
Chronology comment
ca. 1941-1944 C.E., with mostly Roman residue
Explanation of deposition
Mixed sediment in narrow, sinuous ditch that German soldiers cut through southeast ridge during World War II.
Soil matrix
Heterogeneous but predominantly brown and light brown (7.5YR 5/3, 6/3, 6/4) turning pink to south (7.5YR 7/3), loose to very loose, sandy silt to silty sand with many scattered pebbles to large cobbles and small boulders (<20–25 cm range).