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: CMB 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2011 
Entry: We (JHB and I) have continued to excavate unit 16966. This layer is present on all the space 342 (wall, buttress excluded). Behind east buttress (F. 5053), a lot of mortar, mud brick (black, compact) and clay (white, compact) are present. At the beginning... 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: 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... 
 
Name: CMB 
Team:  
Date: 8/10/2011 
Entry: In space 342, buildings 105, we (JHB and I) have finished today the last layer of the excavation 2011. Unit 16966 is composed of lamp of clay on the east and north part. We had kept these lamps since today as we thought this concentration could be a limit... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/1/2012 
Entry: In southern Building 105, SO and EUR finished room fill layer 16997 and then cleaned the walls around it. As the layer contained much of the white marl used for plastering, some of the lumps were also quite close to the walls and blur the outlines – we le... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/2/2012 
Entry: Nice last work day of the week which we used to continue things we started yesterday. KTX removed wall F.2408 down to the second lowest brick layer, taking samples and exposing the brick work and documented it in a photo. JHB removed another quarter... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/7/2012 
Entry: Exciting day in B.105. During room fill removal in both parts of the building (north – 17280, south – 17283), more and more construction features started showing up. Also, 17280 looks very different from the usual West Mound room fill. In this layer of bu... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/12/2012 
Entry: KTX worked further on clarifying the brick work in the area wall F.5058 meets buttress F.3301. This area, as already expected, is quite complicated. The wall makes a slight bend here, and also was connected to the buttress, so we expected brick laying to ... click here for more... 
 
Name: EUR 
Team:  
Date: 8/13/2012 
Entry: I am very happy with the work we did today. We were able to find all the walls surrounding the SE space of BLDG 105. It included features 3353, 3368, 3303, 3366. The buttresses 3353 and 3366 were constructed with layers of dark grey mud brick and beige mo... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/13/2012 
Entry: Today we had a lot of action in the trench, as five students from Southampton University are joining us for three days. Three of them were working with DLG, moving a lot of soil in Building 107 (16988), uncovering features and finding loads of artefact... click here for more... 
 

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