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: 8/9/2011 
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: 7/24/2012 
Entry: JHB continued working on cluster 16981, following it into Space 341; it ends in the doorway between Spaces 450 and 341, though – the cluster therefore is located north and northwest of buttress F.5057. In the doorway he uncovered a dense layer of phytolit... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/26/2012 
Entry: We spent yesterday and today following the plans we made in the strategy discussion on Tuesday. PTW continued exposing buttresses F.3355 and F.3356 in Building 107/Space 462, which is a time-consuming thing as firstly a lot of soil has to be moved and... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/31/2012 
Entry: Another exciting day in Trench 5. A not so nice new thing was rain damage due to the thunderstorm last night. I happens that the most leaking parts of the tent are over B.98. This one time we have a nice white plaster floor, and now we have little rain po... click here for more... 
 
Name: DLG 
Team:  
Date: 8/4/2012 
Entry: Today was spent removing the rest of the room fill of 17262 and cleaning/searching for the buttresses around the unit (f. 3339/3306, 3338/3308, 3356/3355). While the room fill removal was easy and quick, the search for the buttresses was frustrating. Th... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/1/2013 
Entry: PTW, JHB and I have been working in the trench since Saturday 27th July. The workmen cleared the sandbags, we scraped the winter damage off the walls and cut back the sections. In this course, JHB also removed the remaining parts (skull and a few displace... click here for more... 
 
Name: CMP 
Team:  
Date: 8/4/2013 
Entry: Today was the first day of actual excavation. I worked with PAB on unit 31112 in building 107. It's an interesting area because of the relations this unit has with the wall F 3344 (abuts it), with the buttre F 3356 and the buttre 3355 (just above them). T... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/4/2013 
Entry: The team arrived on Friday and cleaned the trench yesterday (Saturday) and today. After cleaning, photos were taken and then excavation started. GWN, ASO and EIH are working in B.98. The aim for this season is to find out what is under floor 16977. For... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/5/2013 
Entry: Everybody continued working where they started yesterday. Additionally, TET and the workmen started opening and cleaning B.106 to also start excavating there. Things are going nicely, people are getting used to the architecture and recording system incr... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/5/2013 
Entry: Everybody continued working where they started yesterday. Additionally, TET and the workmen started opening and cleaning B.106 to also start excavating there. Things are going nicely, people are getting used to the architecture and recording system incred... click here for more... 
 

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