The Excavation Diary

The excavation diaries are a daily log kept by the excavators on site during each season. They record the day to day activity of the team and their observations on their work.
 
Displaying Diary Entries for Building: 105

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Name: CMB 
Team:  
Date: 8/8/2011 
Entry: A concentration of clay and mud brick separated arbitrary unit 16958 and unit 16959. This layer (unit 16965) has been excavated and I and JHB don’t have found finds or fill witch seemed to the other unit. Once time this layer remained, we have checked tha... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/8/2011 
Entry: Apart from room fill excavation, we set out on a wall finding mission today, trying to define the walls in the trench extension that we have been seeing and feeling for a while, but which are still clouded by disturbances. We want to identify these walls ... click here for more... 
 
Name: JHB 
Team:  
Date: 8/8/2011 
Entry: Today we successfully found the limits of the house that space 342 belongs to. Well, I didn't actually find the western and southern walls that provided the delineation of the building, but since I have been working in space 342 for some time, I feel that... click here for more... 
 
Name: CMB 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2011 
Entry: We (JHB and I) have continued to excavate unit 16966. This layer is present on all the space 342 (wall, buttress excluded). Behind east buttress (F. 5053), a lot of mortar, mud brick (black, compact) and clay (white, compact) are present. At the beginning... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2011 
Entry: We are preparing towards the end of the field season this year, and so far all spaces and excavation areas seem to come to a smooth and logical end ... let’s hope nothing unexpected (burials, gold, ovens) will happen in the next days! DKK drew Space 34... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/10/2011 
Entry: Second last day in the trench, and a exciting day. Apart from very nice small finds, and in general many finds, we attributed two new building numbers: The building encompassing Spaces 310 and 454 is now Building 106, since its southern wall (F.3352) was ... click here for more... 
 
Name: CMB 
Team:  
Date: 8/10/2011 
Entry: In space 342, buildings 105, we (JHB and I) have finished today the last layer of the excavation 2011. Unit 16966 is composed of lamp of clay on the east and north part. We had kept these lamps since today as we thought this concentration could be a limit... click here for more... 
 
Name: Eugen 
Team:  
Date: 7/29/2012 
Entry: We finished yesterday the excavation of unit 16980, which was also the last layer within the space 341. We reached the floor there and for the first time we have floors in the West Mound (building 98). In most of the walls the floor seemed to enter within... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/28/2012 
Entry: Yesterday our new teammates TET, SO, CMF, GWN and FJ arrived and today they already jumped in right after breakfast cleaning and starting excavation. EUR and JHB finished exposing walls and floor in Spaces 340 and 341 today. No floor 16977 is present i... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/29/2012 
Entry: KTX recorded the faces of walls in Space 310 (B.106) today. Wanting to remove wall F.2427, he scraped off the plaster U.17246 [in 2008, the excavator of Space 310 saw two layers of plaster on top of each other; we did not see this today and therefore used... click here for more... 
 

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