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 = 3343

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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: JFB 
Team:  
Date: 8/4/2011 
Entry: Today I continued work on F. 3342 U. 15383, which I was able to plan and lift today - I was surprised I got it done that quickly. While I was finishing the levels for the drawing, I had DJG come over to assist with this, and unfortunately as soon as he re... 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: JFB 
Team:  
Date: 8/7/2011 
Entry: Today I continued to work on F. 3343 burial. I draw the mudbrick 16954 construction, and it seems to have a disturbance of some sort in the eastern section. There are some animal burrows, but there may be something else bigger going on as well, such as a ... 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: RHB 
Team:  
Date: 8/8/2011 
Entry: Today I went back out into the field after spending a few days in the heavy residue lab helping to label and weigh the material. As there are only a few days left of excavation I was assigned to help JFB with excavating the burial fill, U. 16956 of featur... 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: 8/9/2011 
Entry: We are preparing towards the end of the field season this year, and so far all spaces and excavation areas seem to come to a smooth and logical end ... let’s hope nothing unexpected (burials, gold, ovens) will happen in the next days! DKK drew Space 34... click here for more... 
 
Name: JFB 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2011 
Entry: Today I continued work on leveling the area where F. 3343 burial cut (16955) into the Chalcolithic walls (F. 3351 and 3354). It was level by the end of the day, and we could see the two walls, where F. 3351 is the southern wall of Sp. 454, and the wall ju... click here for more... 
 
Name: RHB 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2011 
Entry: Following on from the discovery of chalcolithic walls instead of a burial yesterday, and as the line of this wall plaster was so clearly visable, today I went into space 454 and removed the rest of the room and pit fill (U.16967) to expose the wall surfac... click here for more... 
 

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