| Entry: | Today was the last day with the southhampton team and, unfortunately we had to spend the morning prepping and taking the 3D photo. This, of course, involved massive amounts of brushing and then once the brushing was done, the students were sent to sift while the photos were taken. While such brushing is by no means fun, it is an essential part of archaeology and in some sense it was probably good for the students to experience it. The afternoon was a bit more fun as we began dismantling the upper layer of the western wall of the room. We decided to first remove the western wall because it is the highest of the walls and is thus he biggest safety threat in the room. We started in the southwest corner of the room and tried first to establish whether or not the walls were bonded or abutting. This proved more difficult than we initially assumed and the corner itself was heavily disturbed by animal burrows and plant roots. We thus worked on exposing the outer face of the southern wall to see if that provided any more clues. Upon doing so it appeared that the walls were indeed bonded and we began digging down the southern end of the western wall to get a better view of the integration. This will be finished tomorrow and we will quickly see how the walls were assembled. |
