| Entry: | Well, today has been a very good day, for many reasons! First, the burials are certainly finished for now - no more are showing through which means we can finally bring out the big tools and move some earth. We started taking off layer 11652, a seemingly ordinary room fill with nothing special to note it except for a high number of finds, bone, pot and obsidian, but even this is nothing unusual for a room fill. Then, as I was matttocking away, just before breakfast I saw something that looked like a piece of pot with a lug on it - took another swing to bring it to the surface of the loose earth and turned it over - it wasn;t pot it was baked clay, and it was a lovely clay seal with the pattern of an animal on it! (find X1) Amazing! 'bl**** h*** roddy you gotta see this, woah, its incredible, f-ing treasure man, wow!'. Or something like that. Is pretty amazing find though, something to remember for ever. Had a pleasant morning showing it round to everyone, and comparing it to a stamp seal I found in platform 1332 makeup layers to see if that first one could have also been an animal (doesn't look like it could be). Returned to taking out the layer after that, rather more carefully than before! Thisafternoon started stripping off the next layer, orange packing to the east of the building. It is coming off on to midden-like material, and slowly the whole building is turning a dark grey. That soil is a good deal softer than anything I've been digging in the last few weeks which is something to look forward to. For now the orange packing is more rock solid earth. And of course the fallout from the burial pit - thousands of unit sheets and feature sheets to be entered into the database - all somehow seeming less of a chore on the back of such treasure!Entered By: Alex Pryor |
