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 Feature = 1312

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Name: Roddy Regan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/6/2004 
Entry: Three days on since my last entry (i think?) Anyway things seem to be going well in building 10. Lots of contexts hav been removedç mostly floors below the platforms (phisically below). It looks like Platform F1307 may be released first as the we are... click here for more... 
 
Name: Roddy Regan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/7/2004 
Entry: Rather humid day under the shelter. What stated as a bit of a flap ended fine as we are about the shift some of the platforms or at least eat into them. It appears that what was considerd to be the the east wall and part of the south and north walls of... click here for more... 
 
Name: Alex Pryor 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/17/2004 
Entry: diary entry 4 To catch up with developments in the last few days, I removed the final pot (10675) from the rubbish mound, and have finished plans in scales 1:20 and in 1:10. One pot was left in situe as it seems to belong to a lower layer with floors r... click here for more... 
 
Name: Alex Pryor 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/19/2004 
Entry: Diary entry 5 In the last few days, I have been working on platform F1312, taking down the layers and working out the relationships with the surrounding features. The area around the rubbish pit (F.1325) has become a little clearer, but some of the lay... click here for more... 
 
Name: Roddy Regan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/20/2004 
Entry: Whats happened since my last entry? Well things apart from the burial situation are swinging along nicely. The digging of the burials from the platforms will no doubt take some time, not only do we appear to have a few judging by the already exposed sec... click here for more... 
 
Name: Alex Pryor 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/21/2004 
Entry: diary entry 6 Yesterday I spent time taking off layers of wall plaster, and excavating another hard lump of material beside the probable ladder setting (11271). There are many of these which have come off now, it really seems that this area was used fo... click here for more... 
 
Name: Alex Pryor 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/26/2004 
Entry: diary entry 7 Have been waiting for Richard to free up the next layer on the platfrom, which is sealed by some wall plaster adjoining the area he is working in (F1320). So yesterday I helped Roddy plan and remove a floor layer from the main floor (1140... click here for more... 
 
Name: Alex Pryor 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 7/28/2004 
Entry: Diary entry 8 In the last 2 days I have been doing some more exploring of the walls, only showing that the corners of the building are not where they had been assumed to be in the SE corner. The wall has been built on top of what looks like midden (114... click here for more... 
 
Name: Alex Pryor 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 8/1/2004 
Entry: entry 9 The last few days have been spent up on the East walls, rather than in the building. Roddy took over my excavations on the North platform which had been put on hold for Richard while he was looking at platform 1320, stratiagraphically the north... click here for more... 
 
Name: Alex Pryor 
Team: West-Buffalo/Camb 
Date: 8/3/2004 
Entry: Diary entry 10 The last two days have been spent tying up the loose ends of the building. I began by removing a plaster facing (11474 on the bench (f.1310), facing the south (platform f.1312) and then the thin stripof packing/makeup lying in what would... click here for more... 
 

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