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: 8/18/2010 
Entry: JFB continued in pit F.3331, where a lot of non-articulated human bones now appear everywhere in the northern part and under the large stone, which was taken out today. Before taking it out, we documented the state of excavation in drawing and photo. E... click here for more... 
 
Name: EMM 
Team:  
Date: 8/18/2010 
Entry: Today I worked again in unit 15180 in space 449, defining the walls of the buttress 5057, which is disturbed in the NW-corner , wall 3333 , 3324 and butress 3326. After exposing the NE-corner completely, the photoshooting took place, and I began to draw... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/19/2010 
Entry: LKH continued fill unit 15194. XHB exposed floor U.15341 further (fill above: 15196). It is still continuing towards west, but considerably sloping downwards in that part. He stopped cleaning the floor to make a section through the fill above (15196) in t... 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: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/22/2010 
Entry: Second last day of excavation for this season. BOD continued excavating room fill (15340) in Spaces 450 and 452, typical fill with a lot of building materials and finds. Building 98 is now excavated fairly deep in the central part, not floor yet and the b... click here for more... 
 
Name: EMM 
Team:  
Date: 8/23/2010 
Entry: On the last day of excavation I continued taking out the cluster of clayballs (15343) in space 449. Under the clay balls appeared one made of white stone. Besides that the usual ground stone could be found. I took out 4 layers o the clay ball heap, leav... click here for more... 
 
Name: EMM 
Team:  
Date: 7/24/2011 
Entry: Today I continued working in space 449. Removing some roomfill (U 15362) in the western part of the space, there turned up some rather big lenses of pale yellowish clay, stretching from the South-West corner (F 5057, 3333) to the northern border of the un... click here for more... 
 
Name: EMM 
Team:  
Date: 7/26/2011 
Entry: Today I finished drawing U 15370 (roomfill) and U 15343 (cluster of clayballs) in space 449. Afterwards I carefully started excavating Unit 15370, but I didn`t really go down, it was more trying to level out the bump in the center of space 449 that was ac... click here for more... 
 
Name: EMM 
Team:  
Date: 7/27/2011 
Entry: Today I opened the new unit 15380, which is a cluster of wall plaster lying in space 449, in order to not mix up different deposition-events in this space. I spent the day exposing this cluster. It is located in front of F 3333 and also stretches along F ... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 7/30/2011 
Entry: On Thursday afternoon, I gave the Templeton group a tour to trench 5 which developed into a lively discussion on the nature of our deposits, especially in space 449 which is currently the most impressive, as excavation of unit 15730 by EMM is still going ... click here for more... 
 

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