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: 107

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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: Jana Rogasch 
Team:  
Date: 7/17/2012 
Entry: Starting Excavation in West Mound Trench 5 this season. We arrived Friday 13th July and have been cleaning the trench from sand bags and soil until yesterday, when we started excavating after breakfast. Aim of this season is to remove those buildings w... click here for more... 
 
Name: Jana Rogasch 
Team:  
Date: 7/20/2012 
Entry: The fact that B.98 surprised us with a nice plaster floor with in situ artefacts on it is not only really nice, but also completely changes the strategy for this season. B.98 was supposed to be excavated to the end and be sitting on a midden; excavating t... click here for more... 
 
Name: Jana Rogasch 
Team:  
Date: 7/21/2012 
Entry: I forgot to mention something earlier: After talking to Lisa G about this, we decided to, from last Thursday 19th July on, in layers with many clay balls not treat the balls as x-finds any more, but collect them in a bag like pot sherds etc. The reason fo... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/22/2012 
Entry: In preparation of the removal of Buildings 106 and 107, PTW and KTX continued cleaning them from backfill remains. We also decided to record them with 3D photography tomorrow before starting to take out walls. It is ideal that we can record the buildings ... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/23/2012 
Entry: EUR continued work in Space 341. IF came out to help with the cluster of unfired pottery 16989, which is a pile of large and small fragments in the NW corner of the room, very densely together, on top of each other. Their position suggests these fragments... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/24/2012 
Entry: JHB continued working on cluster 16981, following it into Space 341; it ends in the doorway between Spaces 450 and 341, though – the cluster therefore is located north and northwest of buttress F.5057. In the doorway he uncovered a dense layer of phytolit... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/26/2012 
Entry: We spent yesterday and today following the plans we made in the strategy discussion on Tuesday. PTW continued exposing buttresses F.3355 and F.3356 in Building 107/Space 462, which is a time-consuming thing as firstly a lot of soil has to be moved and... click here for more... 
 
Name: DLG 
Team:  
Date: 7/28/2012 
Entry: Today was my first day on site, and my area looked much the way I had left it. The questions left from last year still remain and the first thing that needs addressing is the phasing of the Western wall and its relationship to the buttresses of room 107.... click here for more... 
 
Name: DLG 
Team:  
Date: 7/28/2012 
Entry: Today was my first day on site, and my area looked much the way I had left it. The questions left from last year still remain and the first thing that needs addressing is the phasing of the Western wall and its relationship to the buttresses of room 107.... click here for more... 
 

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