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: JFB 
Team:  
Date: 8/24/2009 
Entry: Since I was not in the field yesterday, I at first was assigned to join SRW in Space 342 Unit 18341 and 18346 that we had been working on previously. I assisted for the morning session in helping to measure unit 18346 for a plan. It was difficult to keep ... 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: CMB 
Team:  
Date: 8/8/2011 
Entry: A concentration of clay and mud brick separated arbitrary unit 16958 and unit 16959. This layer (unit 16965) has been excavated and I and JHB don’t have found finds or fill witch seemed to the other unit. Once time this layer remained, we have checked tha... click here for more... 
 
Name: CMB 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2011 
Entry: We (JHB and I) have continued to excavate unit 16966. This layer is present on all the space 342 (wall, buttress excluded). Behind east buttress (F. 5053), a lot of mortar, mud brick (black, compact) and clay (white, compact) are present. At the beginning... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/10/2011 
Entry: Second last day in the trench, and a exciting day. Apart from very nice small finds, and in general many finds, we attributed two new building numbers: The building encompassing Spaces 310 and 454 is now Building 106, since its southern wall (F.3352) was ... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/7/2012 
Entry: Exciting day in B.105. During room fill removal in both parts of the building (north – 17280, south – 17283), more and more construction features started showing up. Also, 17280 looks very different from the usual West Mound room fill. In this layer of bu... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2012 
Entry: Today after breakfast we had a very nice trench tour, during which everybody talked about their area and we discussed details of the contexts and the strategy for the following days. GWN and JHB spent the day in B.98 wrapping up the contexts we have ti... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 8/12/2012 
Entry: A few days ago I arrived on site to find T5 all in good order. After all, it has turned into the kind of place with walls standing up to almost my own height had always dreamed of when we started in 2006. Very enjoyable. I am particularily happy about ... click here for more... 
 
Name: EUR 
Team:  
Date: 8/13/2012 
Entry: I am very happy with the work we did today. We were able to find all the walls surrounding the SE space of BLDG 105. It included features 3353, 3368, 3303, 3366. The buttresses 3353 and 3366 were constructed with layers of dark grey mud brick and beige mo... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/13/2012 
Entry: Today we had a lot of action in the trench, as five students from Southampton University are joining us for three days. Three of them were working with DLG, moving a lot of soil in Building 107 (16988), uncovering features and finding loads of artefact... click here for more... 
 

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