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.
 
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Name: Su Leaver 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/1/1998 
Entry: Saturday 1 Aug Continued cleaning 117, I’ve been covering it at night to try to maintain moisture as it will show the deposits more clearly although I’m sure it will soon dry out. Started to remove top fill of oven F268 Eve- Input diaryEntered By: Su L... click here for more... 
 
Name: Richard Turnbull 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/18/1998 
Entry: 18/8/98 In space 150 TC continuing to excavate oven - planned/excavated [3390] - up to section. A thin apparent remnant of the oven structure at the S. end which has been truncated away - except for on the W. side. Below [3390] also planned/excavated a ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Richard Turnbull 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/19/1998 
Entry: 19/8/98 - TC excavating [3602] - this apparently demolition/backfill material filling a bin - finished excavating this. With SL took intensity archmag. samples from oven 268 in space 117. Meeting with Ian to discuss how to speed up excavations in space 1... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 4/13/1999 
Entry: Craig 13-4-99 Have been working in south-west corner of space 117 so far. Started off by removing left over fragments from last year - baulk and part of ovens F.268 and F.290. Beneath these there are a series of earlier ovens - F.450, F.451, F.409. The... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 4/17/1999 
Entry: SHAHINA 17/4/99 We’ve just completed our first full week of excavation of the 6 month season with all personnel but as I’ve been here since the 30th March I thought I would recap on events so far and then discuss the excavation area and strategy. Kh... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 4/20/1999 
Entry: Craig 20-4-99 Continuing in space 117. Various things removed and it looks like we are getting down to the very earliest deposits. Removed platform F.292 in the north-west corner, fairly mundane and boring. It seals floor (4165) which can probably be e... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 5/1/1999 
Entry: The aim at the start of the season, once the original area of excavation was changed, was to finish space 117, building 2 and excavate as much of space 115 so as to release wall 406 to excavate that and make building 7 (shrine 8) safe to work in. Wall 40... click here for more... 
 

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