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 = 2428

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Name: TEB 
Team:  
Date: 7/26/2008 
Entry: Another busy and hectic Monday - but we have spaces finally! We have unveiled two new spaces. Space 340 is made up of four walls, features 2428 (units 16853 and 16854), 5052 (16855 and 16856), 5053 (units 16857 and 16858) and 2413 (units 16851 and 1685... click here for more... 
 
Name: RBW 
Team:  
Date: 7/27/2008 
Entry: (A note to other west mounders who've been having this problem: If you go to Unit/Feature/Space number fields without saving the record, you'll lose anything you've typed in the diary field since Access last automatically saved). Today was the first d... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 7/28/2008 
Entry: Pretty hot day today which (especially after lunch which I plan to skip again as I did last year) made my brain work very slow (if at all). There is a pit disturbing the room fill in the SW corner of the trench that we had uncovered after the removal ... click here for more... 
 
Name: DEL 
Team:  
Date: 8/3/2008 
Entry: Depressing to start every diary entry with an apology for lack of entries, so I won't. Today TEB and MIB took down a room fill, 16896. We also found a cluster of pots which is now 16899 in the North-Western corner. We also sorted out the buttresses so we ... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/6/2008 
Entry: First cleaned the walls of my space 340 ( unit 16880) to make sure that I will not undercut them. It is the same story as in space 341: Phytoliths sitting on the wall face, therefore the fill nicely peeling off. I could follow the plaster quite some 15cm ... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2008 
Entry: Thursday and this morning I cleaned the walls of space 340, so that it is now in a state that we could also leave it for next year if we run out of time. While cleaning it became clear that all walls F 5050, 5054/ 5053, 5052 and 2428 are plastered. The pl... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/10/2008 
Entry: Finished unit 16880 by taking a bit more off to make it more even and then cleaned everything for next year. Scraped a bit in order to find the outlines of the butress 5052 and found a plaster line that indicates its face that leads into the room. Unfortu... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/11/2008 
Entry: In the morning I was drawing space 340 an the adjacent walls/ butresses (F 5052, 5053/ 54, 2428, 2713). Then I was moved to space 345, where Ray has been working in the last days. I brushed the area in order to find the eastern wall, which was there indee... click here for more... 
 
Name: TEB 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2009 
Entry: The total station was set up today for its use in Trench 5. Two new steps were created along the western section of T5 along eastings 690 and 691. SO was excavating a suspected pit fill (18307) and its cut (18308) in space 340 that respects F2428 in t... click here for more... 
 
Name: XX 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2009 
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