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: 8/15/2010 
Entry: PTW removed the possible installation F.3325 today (the "bukranium"). It sits on a strange bump of plaster, mortar and mud brick (?), but does not seem to be an installation, as I believe - rather a coincidence. He also found the continuation of the floor... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/17/2010 
Entry: SCS continued working on the clarification of Features 2429, 2428, 3327, 5052 and 3320. Unfortunately, the decision abutting/ binding into for F.2428 and 5052, and also 2429 and 3327, is still not possible - partially because of the rodent holes and parti... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/21/2010 
Entry: EMM continued working on the clay ball cluster U.15343 in Space 449. Its outlines are visible now, it is a heap of balls in the eastern part of the trench, fading towards west. IF finished room fill U.15335 in Space 310. At the present level, a seemingly ... click here for more... 
 
Name: BOD 
Team:  
Date: 8/21/2010 
Entry: Last task of the season - to clarify the interesting but confusing inter-buttress area - space 450. 452. Today I started excavating the roomfill in space 450 (U.15340) which at this level turned out to be full of interesting finds - pottery clusters, a... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/23/2010 
Entry: Last day of excavation in Trench 5 for this year. EMM continued taking out clay ball cluster U.15343 and removed probably is main part, but still some of it is remaining is Space 449, there was no time to take them out and record. We will protect them... click here for more... 
 
Name: BOD 
Team:  
Date: 8/23/2010 
Entry: Last excavation day. After a big push downwards in space 450 yesterday (about 40cm down), today was spent extending the same level to space 452. Then – polishing the buttresses' plaster, smartening out the profiles, emptying meep-holes, etc. In sum, movin... click here for more... 
 
Name: Jana Rogasch 
Team:  
Date: 7/17/2012 
Entry: Starting Excavation in West Mound Trench 5 this season. We arrived Friday 13th July and have been cleaning the trench from sand bags and soil until yesterday, when we started excavating after breakfast. Aim of this season is to remove those buildings w... click here for more... 
 

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