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: 125

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Name: GWN 
Team:  
Date: 8/24/2013 
Entry: This is one of the last days for excavation so we are finishing the work in the small sondage bellow the building 98. After closing the 31214 and opening 31227 and 31218, as well as the feature 3387, we determined the earliest building so far in the Tre... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/24/2013 
Entry: GWN and CLC continued investigating feature and “burnt layer” in the phase under B.98 which now has the working title Building 125! CLC found a corner, so there really is a wall behind the buttress F.3387, of which we do not see the eastern limit. GWN fol... click here for more... 
 
Name: GWN 
Team:  
Date: 8/25/2013 
Entry: Today is the last excavation day so we had to finish the digging and clearing of our units. Surely it was not possible to close them, neither to explore the buildings in total, especially not the building 125. From Tuesday on, the site will be backfilled ... click here for more... 
 
Name: CLC 
Team:  
Date: 8/26/2013 
Entry: 22-08-2013 We began the day by finishing removal of the dome-like feature (31222), after cleaning and photo of the emerging 'buttress.' We expected that the buttress would continue under the dome, but this was not the case. We first carefully scraped t... click here for more... 
 
Name: GWN 
Team:  
Date: 8/26/2013 
Entry: If you are willing to do household things the very last days are best to practice your own skills. So this day was consisting of constant brushing without any further activities within Trench 5. Even picnic breakfast was moved to dighouse thus it is someh... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/26/2013 
Entry: This is a dairy for 25th August – the last excavation day in Trench 5 for this season – and forever. DSE in Space 310 removed the marl lumps he uncovered in removing layer 31232 and during removal confirmed that the marl did not form constructed featur... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/29/2013 
Entry: For the last four days, we have been working on trench closing tasks. Cleaning, taking millions of photos, taking a few last samples, dismantling the tent, taking more pictures, also from a cherry picker, finishing documentation and finds sorting. Today, ... click here for more... 
 

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