| Entry: | Excavator's log.
This day started where the last one ended with scraping around burial f. 3316 We actually got two X-finds, a "plaster ball", whatever it was used for and a worked bone, dito (unitnr.: 15149).
At first I worked together with L until she got her own space next to the burial, and when later JFB came down from the hights of the burial in the south-western corner and continued working on burial 3316, I myself got a space to destroy - err work on.
Space 345 - what a nice number - is EMM's space from last year, so there is quite a lot of wall excavated. My task for the day was at first to get the floor that was _sure_ to be there a few centimeters under the uneven sureface, which hadn't been trod upon for a year. After quite some time of rather inconsequential scraping, trying to make sense of blobs of plaster, and burrows of annoying all-over-the-place-digging animals, it was decided by our trenchmaster that I was looking on typical roomfill and my new task for the day was to get the surface evened out. This task led to the discovery of phytolite residue at three different points of the room, all of them directly next to a wall/buttress, two at the eastern wall (5075) and one at the southern buttress (5056), at which point it was decided to brush the surface and take a photo.
I mentioned the animal burrows before. Especially the north-western corner the soil is very soft (and easy to scrape), whereas in the eastern part the soil turns more compact and probably less disturbed. Still the all-over impression of this unit (btw.: nr. 15168) is a patchwork of differently coloured inclusions (clay, plaster) and animal burrows.
The space east of the buttress was only brushed by me, as it is about 10cm deeper as the rest of the unit and I tried to get an even planum. EMM thought to have found a surface there last year and at least on a first glance it seems as if this could well be, as the soil seems pretty compact and homogenous.
Just in "front of" this space in northern direction was and partly still is a slope of pretty compact grey stuff, which doesn't quite look like plaster in my opinion and under which could be more phytolite (there seemed to be a white line in the profile I cut in one place). There is also a weird circular (r= 2.5cm) thingy there, which I'd like to have a look at tomorrow.
SCS out. |
