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: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/24/2009 
Entry: Today was a day of intensive discussion in Sp 310. EMM and me continued scraping away everything that was loose soil in search for a surface or other features. The fact that the level that was supposed to be the arbitrary end of 18343 is very compact and ... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/25/2009 
Entry: Today I scraped away the rest of the room fill 18343 in order to expose the surface in which I believe now and which was attributed the Unit number 18348. I also fully exposed the plaster on the N wall 3313, F 3315 and the the floor/ collapse feature U 18... click here for more... 
 
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: 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: 7/26/2012 
Entry: We spent yesterday and today following the plans we made in the strategy discussion on Tuesday. PTW continued exposing buttresses F.3355 and F.3356 in Building 107/Space 462, which is a time-consuming thing as firstly a lot of soil has to be moved and... 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: 8/8/2013 
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: 8/20/2013 
Entry: Today was a day of new discoveries. In Space 448, TET and PAB scraped the bottom some more after finishing the big fill layer 31169 yesterday. After that, we saw two spots that very certainly were buttresses, even though they are still fuzzy at this le... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/24/2013 
Entry: GWN and CLC continued investigating feature and “burnt layer” in the phase under B.98 which now has the working title Building 125! CLC found a corner, so there really is a wall behind the buttress F.3387, of which we do not see the eastern limit. GWN fol... click here for more... 
 

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