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: 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: 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: 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: 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... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/18/2012 
Entry: This is a summary for work done today and also Thursday 16th August. In Building 105, EUR and CMF worked on removing the mud brick concentrations 18364 in the northeast and northwest corner of the building. In EUR’s northeast corner, the brick material... click here for more... 
 
Name: CMF 
Team:  
Date: 8/6/2012 
Entry: So, what’s new in the girls’ trench? Today we finished to remove the first 10 cm of u. 17272 in the whole area. It consisted only of room fill with a lot of collapsed material (mud bricks, plaster lumps). There were still the same black patches I mentione... click here for more... 
 
Name: FKJ 
Team:  
Date: 8/2/2012 
Entry: Yesterday we nearly finished unit 16966. Only some potsherds in the north-western corner and three collapsed mud bricks were left. As we continued excavating the room fill, we expected the walls to continue further down. The buttress (F. 5062) seems to co... click here for more... 
 
Name: FKJ 
Team:  
Date: 8/5/2012 
Entry: After a relaxing weekend I stayed at the dig house to help in the botanical laboratory, yesterday. I mostly supervised the workmen at the flotation machines and entered new data to the database. Today, we started to excavate a new unit, still in the same... click here for more... 
 

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