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 = 3306

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Name: TEB 
Team:  
Date: 8/26/2009 
Entry: Over the last few days JMR has been taking down space 310 slowly in order to expose any cultural surface that may be present. Today JMR began recording the elevations in space 310, having stopped excavating at unit 18348, suspected to be a surface. Featur... 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: 7/31/2011 
Entry: JFB drew burial F.3347 today and took out the bones. It turns out that some of the skeleton is outside trench borders, we are currently discussing what to do about that. She was assisted by a micromorphology specialist taking samples to identify rest of s... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/2/2011 
Entry: Another exciting day in Trench 5. DLG started cleaning the plastered face of wall F.3344 (removed fill U.16930). Afterwards, the base of the wall became visible; it is sitting on very homogeneous grey fill. It looks nearly like nicely sieved soil and m... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/6/2011 
Entry: Nice progress in the trench on Thursday and today, although several areas start to become more complicated than they seemed to be. As usual! HLS continued to expose the plaster feature U.16932. We are not that sure any more that is is a floor, although... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2011 
Entry: We are preparing towards the end of the field season this year, and so far all spaces and excavation areas seem to come to a smooth and logical end ... let’s hope nothing unexpected (burials, gold, ovens) will happen in the next days! DKK drew Space 34... click here for more... 
 
Name: DLG 
Team:  
Date: 8/4/2012 
Entry: Today was spent removing the rest of the room fill of 17262 and cleaning/searching for the buttresses around the unit (f. 3339/3306, 3338/3308, 3356/3355). While the room fill removal was easy and quick, the search for the buttresses was frustrating. Th... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/6/2012 
Entry: GWN flattened the remains of buttress F.5053/5054 and then spent some time cleaning the surrounding floor 16977 of this buttress and also F.3326 from rain damage and several days of trampling, after which both features were photographed in dry and in wet ... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/15/2012 
Entry: Last day with our Southampton power team. DLG, with Harish and Sam, brushed Building 107 really nicely for a 3D photo session done by PTW. After that, they started taking out wall F.3344 from the top. The reason for starting with this wall is that the ... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/20/2012 
Entry: CMF and EUR brushed their Building 105 for its first 3D-Scan. After this, CMF started on removing wall F.3349, which turned out to be quite disturbed, and uncovered nicely the tops of walls F.3352 and F.3350, starting from the northern part moving south. ... click here for more... 
 

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