Description:
UE374. Post hole on the NE flank of pit, stratigraphic unit UE277. It is located to the SE of the stratigraphic unit UE372, and to the NW of the stratigraphic unit UE376. It was used to house the post that corresponds to stratigraphic units UE287 and UE288. This is one of the 27 post holes made at the bottom of pit UE277 at the time of the initial construction of tomb T7. These holes are lined up next to the base of the walls of the lower part of the tomb, and are distributed around the entire inner perimeter of the tomb at approximately regular intervals. It is completely excavated in the geological substratum of the area. It is circular in shape, slightly oval, and has a flat bottom and slightly sloping walls, resulting in a development in height of an inverted truncated cone form. Its fill (stratigraphic unit UE375) is clearly different from the sediment that covered it (stratigraphic unit UE327), and is accompanied by a characteristic reddish stain in the shape of a circular corona that has been interpreted as the residue left by the in situ decomposition of post that corresponds to stratigraphic units UE287 and UE288. This same feature occurs in the fill of 13 post holes in tomb T7 (Holes UE Nos. 346, 348, 350, 352, 354, 356, 358, 360, 362, 372, 374, 376 and 378). It seems clear, therefore, that these 13 holes fulfilled the function for which they were created, and housed the same number of posts in the perimeter ring that reinforced the walls of the lower part of burial pit (stratigraphic unit UE277). It cuts stratigraphic units UE277 and UE278, it is below stratigraphic unit UE327, and is filled by stratigraphic unit UE375.