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 = 3341

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Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/26/2011 
Entry: BOD continued removing lenses of infill in Spaces 450 and 452 (scraping U.15372). While doing so, she exposed further the plaster lump U.15373 which now really looks like a lump rather than a construction and continues further into the fill under bench F.... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/27/2011 
Entry: Apart from excavation, micromorphological samples were taken in our trench today by LMS. The specialists came in to take samples of three deposits and surfaces in the southern section of Space 342 and of wall F.2424 in Space 342. We intend to sample wall ... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/28/2011 
Entry: Today, LMS came into the trench for more micromorphological samples. We had a discussion about wall F.2413/5055, which looks more like fill than like wall to the specialists. We discussed the possibility of B.98 consisting of walls and buttresses carved o... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/31/2011 
Entry: JFB drew burial F.3347 today and took out the bones. It turns out that some of the skeleton is outside trench borders, we are currently discussing what to do about that. She was assisted by a micromorphology specialist taking samples to identify rest of s... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/1/2011 
Entry: Exciting day in Trench 5. DLG found the plastered face of wall F.3343 (by removing U.16930, probably still disturbed room fill in Space 343). The plaster is medium thick and medium firm and well preserved, but disturbed by a lot of rodent holes. In the... 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: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/6/2011 
Entry: Nice progress in the trench on Thursday and today, although several areas start to become more complicated than they seemed to be. As usual! HLS continued to expose the plaster feature U.16932. We are not that sure any more that is is a floor, although... 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: 8/8/2011 
Entry: Apart from room fill excavation, we set out on a wall finding mission today, trying to define the walls in the trench extension that we have been seeing and feeling for a while, but which are still clouded by disturbances. We want to identify these walls ... 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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