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: 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: 5/18/1999 
Entry: Have begun seriously tackling the south-eastern island of archaeology in building 18, started on this one as it is the largest and most complex looking. Have basically removed some dirty rake-out / trample deposits (4530) and (4533) with a cluster of clay... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 5/22/1999 
Entry: Have been moved eastwards to the area which used to be space 159 as this has become unsafe due to cracking. Am removing infill of ?level VII to level VIII antechamber of ‘shrine 10’. Not terribly exciting and a bit of a distraction from building 18. Si... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/7/1999 
Entry: Excavated F.I. 499 in the south-west corner and sure enough there is yet another lower one, F.501, making a total of three in that corner so tomorrow I will hopefully dig that one. It appears at present that the oven sequence is F.501 - F.495 - F.499 - F.... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/6/1999 
Entry: Hooray - I have moved to the south-west corner. Boo - it is more complex that I thought. I have excavated the uppermost oven F.472 which was a nicely preserved north-south rectangular domed oven. Unfortunately there is also an earlier oven F.499, whi... click here for more... 
 

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