| Entry: | Today I was working with Naomi in the south-west corner of trench 6. We were taking off the rubble layer 14278 when we stumbled across another pit. The fill for this pit was heavily disturbed by animal burrows and different to the compact surrounding. This loose fill unit 14280 sits on a very ambiguous, ‘amorphous’ (new word I learnt today!) cut, unit 14281. The reason the cut was so hard to define, I believe, was because most of it had been disturbed or removed by animal burrowing. The only identifiable area of the cut was the base of the apparent ‘pit’, which was flat and very hard and indicative of some surface, as the small profile of an animal burrow seems to show. We took a photo of the cut later on in the afternoon, but did not plan it.
Having recorded the pit, I continued to carry on removing 14278, using the ‘surface’ exposed by cut 14281, as a layer to follow. It seemed to work. The layer was continuing under the rubble in all directions and generally appears to be the right layer for me to follow. It is not all that simple. Some of the rubble fill 14278 is very hard, areas that very well could be robust standing walls, in contrast to the looser more fragmented rubble fill. We should hopefully find out a bit more about it all tomorrow.
It has been a very hot day and the first day where I have felt tired.Entered By: TEB |
