| Entry: | Diary entry for yesterday 16/8/2010.
I devoted today's morning to drawing the section of F.3322, which turned up to be a confusing one, not being very useful when it came to clarifying whether this feature is connected to the surrounding area, especially the floor on unit 15170. Once this task was completed I, with the help of one of the workmen, took down the eastern side of unit 15159 about 10 cm and levelled out the surface, which resulted in the discovery of a plaster line running in an E-W directio.This resulted in the discovery of a plaster line running in an E-W direction. This line seems to be connected with a dark yellow rectangular patch of clayish material running in a similar direction, which might be the top of mudbrick wall outlining the boundaries of a building which may have been in existence before the floor at Unit 15170 and Features 3321 and 3322. Further work still needs to be carried out in order to clarify this situation.
Diary entry for today 17/8/2010.
After sampling the phytolith impressions on Unit 15170, with the help of one of the workmen, this as well as Feature 3322 were pulled down. Subsequently, I helped BOD to define the section of what lay underneath the floor on Unit 15170, which proved to have a complex stratigraphy. Floor 15170 was interpreted as a repair of a previous floor froom which it was separated by a layer of dark grey fill. Approximately 4 cm below this floor there might have been a similar sequence of two floors separated by a layer of fill, although this interpretation is more uncertain due to the thinness thereof. After this I concentrated on the NE corner of Unit 15159 with the aim of finding a plaster line that defined the northern boundary of the the wall discovered yesterday on this very same area. However, after removing approximately 5 cm of soil the concentration of dark yellow clayish material increased and became very compact. The result was the discovery of a new floor (whose boundaries will be defined tomorrow) in this NE corner of the Trench (now Unit 15196), as had been predicted on the diary entry for 15/8/2010. To my surprise, what initially seemed an animal disturbance in the middle of the floor, could be clearly identified as a post-hole with a plastered floor. Samples for flotation were taken from its fill (Unit 15197). More on this new exciting floor tomorrow. |
