| Entry: | 18/8/98
In space 150 TC continuing to excavate oven - planned/excavated [3390] - up to section. A thin apparent remnant of the oven structure at the S. end which has been truncated away - except for on the W. side. Below [3390] also planned/excavated a thin band of white plaster which possibly is a remnant of floor layer presumably truncated beyond the line of the oven. TC also planned/excavated to section line [3396] an apparent remnant of structural material at the N. end of the oven ( space 151) - probably equivalent to [3390]. Continued excavating at the E. end of space 150 - planned/excavated a plaster layer [3391] - vertically against the feature in the SE corner - also turned corner at E. end to lie against make-up layer in the NE corner . On excavation another layer of identical plaster visible towards the base of this feature - spent most of the rest of today with Nurdan Sayin from Istanbul University - graduate student working on archaeomagnetism. She took a sample for archmag. Dating from the remaining half of the oven 252 floor [3391] - which she will use for directional dating. As suspected samples already taken from [2865] & [3391] are not usable for directional dating but are OK for intensity dating. NS also took a directional sample from Su’s oven 268 in space 117 [3383] and pointed out a burnt brick in the S. facing section of the space that can be sampled for intensity. [ S he also took 4 samples for intensity in the BACH area .] NS said didn’t need us to take any more directional samples this season - she will see later this year whether the directional samples she took are usable, but she would like us to take further intensity samples.Entered By: Richard Turnbull |
