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 = 2427

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Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 8/5/2008 
Entry: Another great day at T5! Weather was pleasant, archaeology fun. AWH and JJW continued 16898 in space 310. There is a very interesting cluster of big potsherds (unit 17208) abutting the plaster 13726 at the E wall 2427. looks as if people have swept stu... click here for more... 
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Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/16/2009 
Entry: I drew and removed clusters 18320 and 18319 today. Some sherds of 18320 had phytoliths sticking on the side that was turned down. Those were indicated on the drawing and photographed. One sherd was black on the side which was turned down. X3 that was ... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/17/2009 
Entry: I drew a plan of the top level of 18326 today, which will be the next spit of roomfill in Sp 310. While doing so, I had to take back my impression that the fill was now more homogeneous than beforehand. A new thing are spots of reddish soil, I still do no... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/19/2009 
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Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/19/2009 
Entry: Diary for 18.8. I started excavating the third spit of room fill in Sp 310 today (18326). Soil still very heterogeneous. Fill continues to contain huge amounts of pot sherds and animal bones. I expected that the cluster defined in the horizon above (18... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 8/27/2009 
Entry: This year's season was very efficient due to an excellent team, and as TEB has taken over the technical part of the diary I had done during the previous three years, this day of recovery from a feaverish cold is the time to summarize my view of our result... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/7/2010 
Entry: EMM finished documenting the present state of excavation in Space 341 and moved over to the area east of buttress F.5057, where several large potsherds became visible during excavation last year. Some of them belong to what seems to be a pit (15160, 15162... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/8/2010 
Entry: Exciting day in Trench 5. PTW started tackling the fill east of buttress or wall F.5075 in the eastern extension of the trench. He defined the outlines of the ceastwards continuation of wall F.5067 and verified that F.5075 is a wall connected to F.5067... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/12/2010 
Entry: Today, BOD drew the features we defined yesterday after levelling the area in the NE corner of the trench (F.5052, 5057, 3321, 3320,3322, 3326, 3324). JFB drew the floor (15170) in Space 446. EMM finished taking out cluster U.15160 and defined the outline... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/14/2010 
Entry: XHB, besides from working in the Botany Lab for some hours this morning, drew the NE corner of the trench (Space 446, F.3322, U.15159, 15171) in order to prepare for taking them out and levelling the area tomorrow. PTW drew Space 447. Today I had the idea... click here for more... 
 

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