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: 60

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Name: Michael House 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/18/2006 
Entry: Arived on site 04/06/2006 Spent the first week cleaning the South area and removing sand bags from the west strip of the 4040 area and cleaning the loose to reveal the late phase Neolithic structures (phases five or six) these had all been identified and ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Dan Eddisford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/29/2006 
Entry: Despite my best efforts to force it in to a single phase it rapidly became clear that the platforms and floors to the south of where work began in building 59 belong to a later building. Therefore Mike H and I have been excavating this structure (building... click here for more... 
 
Name: Michael House 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/29/2006 
Entry: Building 60 space 278 ( Dan and Mike) 29/06/06 -02/07/06 The south eastern corner of building 60 was completely truncated by the east west foundation of a Byzantine building [12628] this showed clearly showed in section 06/208 the obliquely truncated s... click here for more... 
 
Name: Michael House 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/3/2006 
Entry: Bad day in building 60 space 278 - archaeology not behaving, rough dirty floors many of which have been scoured away make phasing features tricky. Dan excavated a small scoop [12986] just east of the hearth feature 2223, it contained burnt material at the... click here for more... 
 
Name: Dan Eddisford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/22/2006 
Entry: A Neolithic infant burial (F2227) has been excavated from the northern area of space 278, under platform F2225. The individual was approximately six months old and was in a crouched position. The burial did not contain any grave goods. Directly to ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Simon McCann 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/29/2006 
Entry: Still here! Myself and Dave are here to dig B60 and 59 which at the end of the season revealed a very nice painted wall. The new shelter foundation for the 4040 area would go right through this, so our aim is to assess the size and lifespan of this buil... click here for more... 
 
Name: Michael House 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/24/2007 
Entry: First entry 2007 Arived on site the morning of the 16/06/07, helped set up the seminar room and dug out the records for building 59 and 60, to get up to speed on where the excavations finished 2006, as Simon and Dave continued excavation after I left... click here for more... 
 

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