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.
 
Displaying Diary Entries for Feature = 3335

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Name: SCS 
Team:  
Date: 8/23/2010 
Entry: Excavator's log, Catal Date: last digging day. This last day of actual digging was spent actually cleaning, after I finished (at last!) my drawing of unit 15181. I worked with BOD in space 450, cleaning and clearing F. 5052 , 5053/5054 (and a bit F. 50... 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: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/24/2011 
Entry: Excavation in the units with much soil went slowly today as the two sifting workman were missing. DLG continued U.15358, CMB and DKK continued U.15357. HLS continued going down and finding the cut in pit F.3331. It is now rather clear that there must be a... click here for more... 
 
Name: XHB 
Team:  
Date: 7/24/2011 
Entry: Today I continued the excavation of space 446, which I had already worked on during last year's season. This space is bounded by the baulk on the N, a possible bench, F. 3320, and F. 3335 on the W, F. 3321 on the E, and space 452 on the South. The initial... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/2/2011 
Entry: Another exciting day in Trench 5. DLG started cleaning the plastered face of wall F.3344 (removed fill U.16930). Afterwards, the base of the wall became visible; it is sitting on very homogeneous grey fill. It looks nearly like nicely sieved soil and m... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 8/3/2011 
Entry: Being here is only fun if you excavate (or if a specialist work on your finds), but I find it hard to wrtite our article here. This is, although the co-authors then cannot communicate directly, much better done via the internet back home where you have a ... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 8/4/2011 
Entry: As we decided to remove F. 3334 completely, the unit sheets needed rewriting, which proved to be a good occasion to test the new digitizing pen Asa and Bjorn have brought with them to try under real life circumstances. 16925 and 16926 were recorded in thi... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 8/6/2011 
Entry: Spent what was left of the day after the lost bank account card outlining walls and trench with PTW and the Total Station and taking down more of unit 16929. More plaster on wall F. 3335 appears, but animal holes still make it difficult to assess whether ... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/7/2011 
Entry: JHB and CMB continue to excavate lenses of room fill in Space 342, which are distinguishable from each other by certain characteristics such as number and size of sherds, colours and inclusions (U.16958, U.16959). It seems that these lenses are lying on t... 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... 
 

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