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 = 3308

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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: BOD 
Team:  
Date: 8/1/2011 
Entry: I continued excavating U15394, tracing the edges of the buttresses in about 30cm depth. The plaster of the buttresses, although clearly visible in the plan, is a bit tricky to trace in depth. So far, the room fill appears very heterogeneous. Some kinds... click here for more... 
 
Name: BOD 
Team:  
Date: 8/2/2011 
Entry: Carrying on with U 15394 in sp 462 I am now almost sure that the buttresses do not continue in more than 5-10cm depth. The plaster and mudbrick does not extend in depth. Instead, I have been finding a series of large ceramic sherds (almost complete ves... 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: 8/7/2011 
Entry: JHB and CMB continue to excavate lenses of room fill in Space 342, which are distinguishable from each other by certain characteristics such as number and size of sherds, colours and inclusions (U.16958, U.16959). It seems that these lenses are lying on t... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/24/2012 
Entry: JHB continued working on cluster 16981, following it into Space 341; it ends in the doorway between Spaces 450 and 341, though – the cluster therefore is located north and northwest of buttress F.5057. In the doorway he uncovered a dense layer of phytolit... 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: DLG 
Team:  
Date: 8/5/2012 
Entry: In the morning today, I resumed cleaning the buttresses (the southern side of f. 3338/3308 and the northern side of f. 3337/3307). In both cases, within only a few minutes of cleaning, the lower course of the buttress became apparent. This was a very we... click here for more... 
 
Name: DLG 
Team:  
Date: 8/6/2012 
Entry: The morning was spent brushing b. 107 to prepare it for 3D photographing. After the photographing, we tried to determine how to best continue excavating the buildings. Our options were to remove the upper phase of the walls (with the dark mortar), to re... 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... 
 

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