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 = 466

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Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 5/12/1999 
Entry: A bit ani-climatic after yesterdays marathon session. Cleaned up and photographed. Jez and Richard began base planning. Mellaarts level X building 8 (our building 18) is now numbered spaces 171 (Souithern) and 172 (northern). Its walls are 467 (western), ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/14/1999 
Entry: Half way through the week already and I have hardly dug anything. This is largely due to bad weather but also because of recording walls, lack of the hoist as Richard is drawing that elevation and the shelter going up. Oh well it should start to improve n... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/15/1999 
Entry: At last I managed to seriously start removing deposits in space 172. Got rid of the last of the 1960’s backfill and miraculously bin F.466 didn’t collapse. There are now a number of features showing up. F.517 is some form of wall feature, possibly part... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/19/1999 
Entry: Spent whole day drawing walls in space 172 and removing the wall plaster from them. Fairly mindless and tedious stuff but actually quite informative. It showed that the bin F.514 was a primary feature but that bin F.466 was not, although it is quite early... click here for more... 
 

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