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: 18

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Name: Jez Taylor 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 5/18/1999 
Entry: Written on the 16th, and out of date even then. A brief review of recent events on site: On the 12th and 13th, Richard and myself completed the pre-ex. plan for Building 18, which allowed Craig to start excavation of the east wall in Building 7, which... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 5/12/1999 
Entry: A bit ani-climatic after yesterdays marathon session. Cleaned up and photographed. Jez and Richard began base planning. Mellaarts level X building 8 (our building 18) is now numbered spaces 171 (Souithern) and 172 (northern). Its walls are 467 (western), ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 5/11/1999 
Entry: Really productive day on site with several lab people up helping. We removed a lot of backfill and have clearly revealed the deep sounding. It is a bit irregular but this may only apply to the upper part. Now we have to spend some time removing walls whic... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 5/15/1999 
Entry: Spent day knocking down wall and doing paperwork when what I really want to do is start digging level X building 18. Shahina produced a section of the deep sounding with heights. Its source is unknown but presumably comes from Mellaart himself or possi... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 5/18/1999 
Entry: Have begun seriously tackling the south-eastern island of archaeology in building 18, started on this one as it is the largest and most complex looking. Have basically removed some dirty rake-out / trample deposits (4530) and (4533) with a cluster of clay... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 5/22/1999 
Entry: Have been moved eastwards to the area which used to be space 159 as this has become unsafe due to cracking. Am removing infill of ?level VII to level VIII antechamber of ‘shrine 10’. Not terribly exciting and a bit of a distraction from building 18. Si... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 5/25/1999 
Entry: Arrived on site and a large chunk of F.479 had fallen off during the night along the crack line which has been getting steadily wider for the last week. Thankfully we had stopped working there because it was dangerous, some of the lumps were as big as you... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/2/1999 
Entry: My first day back on site after my breakat Antalya. Nobody had done anything in building 18 which is a relief in some respects. Found my first ever burial F.493 a neonate in the south-east corner. It appears to have been buried at the time when the south-... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/3/1999 
Entry: A rather frustrating day as I had to dig a series of small units that meant lots of paperwork etc and relatively little soil being shifted. What appears to be the earliest F.I. in the space was numbered F.495 but only a small area of base (4562) survives.... click here for more... 
 
Name: Basak Boz 
Team: HuR 
Date: 6/3/1999 
Entry: This is my first diary entry, so there is quite a bit to say. There are 10 burials found so far. 8 of them from Building 6- space 163 within the level 8. One of the burials came from the Building 18 and the other one came from House 6 which was dug durin... click here for more... 
 

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