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: 5

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Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/30/1998 
Entry: Craig 30_7_98 End of the second full week of excavation. Have removed three spits of infilling from each of the internal spaces of Building 5. The infilling is all relatively homogenous and clean. It contains quite a lot of building debris, especially ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/2/1998 
Entry: Most of today was spent on recording elevations and the base plan. We have now completed most of this recording so some time tomorrow we should get back on to removing infilling. Doing the base plan has really helped to understand the layout of the Buildi... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/3/1998 
Entry: A fairly successful day. All the elevations were finished so we got back to removing infilling. In the south-east corner of space 154 we removed just over 0.4m [making a total of 0.7m] and came down onto the tops of some features, we will need to get lowe... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/6/1998 
Entry: End of week three and progress continues to be quite good. In space 156 Åsa seems to have almost reached the level of the floors and has begun taking out the second half of the room, so far no features have appeared. The blocking between spaces 156 and 15... click here for more... 
 
Name: Naomi Hamilton 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/6/1998 
Entry: 6th August. I’ve been trying to sort out the plastered moulded feature on the north side of the crawlhole, now called feature 279, and it still isn’t clear what’s going on! Two or three days ago I did take off the orange-brown curved bit (3150) at the n... click here for more... 
 
Name: Åsa Berggren 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/9/1998 
Entry: This is a continuation of my general impressions. The sense of a dividing line between specialists and excavators is stronger than I first imagined. I thought it was just me not being used to the situation. But after the meetings discussing the methodolog... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/9/1998 
Entry: In space 154 we continued removing the deposits left against the walls. This revealed that the southern wall 224 has two quite large recessed features and the eastern wall 229 has one smaller one. The exact function of these is unclear as we have left the... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/11/1998 
Entry: Due to the holiday this is the effective end of week four which was only four days long. Åsa was ill so the only thing that happened in Space 156 was that Sharon cleaned the walls. In Space 157 Mark contined removing infilling and exposing more of the bin... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/20/1998 
Entry: Another week over, time is starting to fly by. In space 154 we are now down to surfaces all over and I have photographed the baulks. Next week we will record these, sample them and get rid of them. A small post-hole has turned up in the north-east corner.... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/30/1998 
Entry: It is now 23.18 in the evening. Between 20.00 and 20.30 I attended a meeting to discusss why people are not writing diaries. Between 20.30 and now I have spent all my time dealing with a set of samples [chemical/phytolith/phosphate] taken about a week ago... click here for more... 
 

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