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: ER 
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Date: 8/1/2011 
Entry: Yesterday bench 3334 which is sitting on fill visible in section in space 450 and 451, was taken down by M# from the TP team who found the mudbricks (16925) and mortar (16926) quite similar to the material they had in the LN on the East Mound. Taking it d... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/22/2012 
Entry: In preparation of the removal of Buildings 106 and 107, PTW and KTX continued cleaning them from backfill remains. We also decided to record them with 3D photography tomorrow before starting to take out walls. It is ideal that we can record the buildings ... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/29/2012 
Entry: KTX recorded the faces of walls in Space 310 (B.106) today. Wanting to remove wall F.2427, he scraped off the plaster U.17246 [in 2008, the excavator of Space 310 saw two layers of plaster on top of each other; we did not see this today and therefore used... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/30/2012 
Entry: SO and EUR finished taking out the compact uppermost layer of room fill in southern Building 105 (16997) until coming down to softer fill which will be taken out with a new unit number. During the fill removal, EUR uncovered the long expected southern but... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/19/2012 
Entry: KTX took a photo of the “section” through F.5058 created by leaving the last centimetres towards F.2424 and then removed this rest of the wall, and of F.3351. During the last days, a crack had formed naturally when the material had dried out, allowing him... 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... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/21/2012 
Entry: GWN worked further in his sondage. After taking out floor 18376, we saw two rectangles in the cut: a red rectangle in the west, and a dark grey rectangle in the east. Both seemed to be building material; they were rather homogeneous and we have seen both ... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/8/2013 
Entry: This is a diary for the 6th and 7th August. Currently we are on a 3-day Bayram excavation break, there is no work being done in the trench on the 8th, 9th (Friday anyway) and 10th August. TET and DAB started removing room fill layer 31127 in Space 310.... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/12/2013 
Entry: Today, TET, DSE and PAB worked together at removing sandbags out of Space 448 and finished towards the end of the day. The space looks quite good; we have not seen it since the end of the 2010 season. After a bit of cleaning, it will be as good as new. ... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/21/2013 
Entry: What a day. So much progress. Towards the middle of the day I got quite stressed, though. B.107. Who would have thought that this would turn out so complicated. Also, I hate those meep meep rodents. CMP cut a NS section into a part of the eastern wa... click here for more... 
 

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