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: 23

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Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 6/9/1999 
Entry: Shahina 7th June Too much has happened since I last wrote a diary, too much to recap on so I’m just going to jot down a few things. I can only cover the archaeology in general terms as I’m not often found with a trowel in my hand on site and I’ve not... click here for more... 
 
Name: Jez Taylor 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/15/1999 
Entry: An update on recent events. I've been out of circulation dairy-wise for a couple of weeks, trying to keep my paper-work up to date. First thing of note - I excavated infill (4477), which lipped over east-west wall F.482, (Space179). We expected (4477) to ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Richard Turnbull 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/27/1999 
Entry: Started to excavate last week in Space 178, Building 23. Working on a stratigraphically straight-forward sequence of ‘fire-installation’ deposits (no.s 4734 to 4740 & 4744 ). So far one apparent oven - a base, but not the hard base excavated in previous ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Nurcan Yalman 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/20/1999 
Entry: 17/06/99 Today we almost finished the work on the walls 503 and 497. We have removed several different types of fill and collapsed material and reached the Northern edge of the wall 497. It is understood that the Wall F.497 was collapsed on the northe... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/24/1999 
Entry: End of another week and only one more to go until the half way point of the season. The start of this week definitely dragged and we didn’t seem to be making any progress but today most of the canvas for the shelter went up and I started digging material ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Jez Taylor 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/29/1999 
Entry: This is a very brief entry, giving a quick run-down on what I have been doing on site, since returning from an r and r trip to Cyprus. I am now in Building 23, Space 178, with Richard, Adnan, and Nurcan. They are all huddled together around the southern... click here for more... 
 
Name: Anwen Cooper 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/4/1999 
Entry: The first day of digging. It was a bit difficult to begin because both of the people that had been excavating the area I was in were away. I started with some oven deposits making up F524 in space 178/ building 23. This represented the latest activity ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Jez Taylor 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/12/1999 
Entry: Space 178. Building 23. An up-date on events of the past week or so: I’ve been continuing work in the north-east corner of the area, whilst Anwen, Nurcan, and Adnan, soldier on in their own respective corners. After excavating unit (4504), a substant... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/18/1999 
Entry: Have spent the last day and a half removing two neonate basket burials F.543 and F.544. These must have been cut during the lifespan of building 23 but because of the location of one of Wendys samples and the removal of composite layers for speed we don’t... click here for more... 
 
Name: Richard Turnbull 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 9/9/1999 
Entry: I moved out of space 181 about a week ago where I’d been working moving spoil since finishing in Building 23. Helped Jon and Charlie remove floors in their respective spaces. Jon has been away the last couple of days so working in space 182 while he’s gon... click here for more... 
 

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