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A STONE FOUNDATION FROM THE 18th CENTURY AND A CLAY FLOOR FROM THE 11th CENTURY (TYA 281: 9)
Type: General view to the excavation area on June 25th, 1996, with subsections 1000, 3000 and 4000 visible.
Site: Raisio, Ihala, Mulli abode.
Period: Viking Age / Crusade Age / Early Middle Ages.
Dating: 980-1220 A.D.
Photographer: Taina Pietikäinen.
Direction of photography: From east.
In the left a stone foundation of a 18th-century building. On its right side there is a clay floor of a prehistoric log house visible, to the southeast corner of which a site of a clay-domed oven is taking shape. The log house with clay floor was discovered already in the first year of excavations. There were altogether six layers of clay floors one upon another (clay floors a, b, and c and 3009, 4071, 3298), three of which were younger than the oven and the three below contemporary with it. In some occasion the oven has been broken down and the stones have been scattered all around the clay floor and a new clay layer was spreaded over them.
At the borders of the clay floor, some post-holes can be seen. The poles have propped up the wall constructions. In the front, a shape of an ancient covered drain goes from left to right.
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Coordinates: x=98-103, y=504-510.
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