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 = 5050

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Name: DEL 
Team:  
Date: 7/26/2008 
Entry: So today Tom and I attempted to create a matrix for the whole of trench 5. The stratigraphy has rather been getting away from us recently and we felt it was time to sort it out properly before evrything got really complicated. There have been a few teethi... click here for more... 
 
Name: KJK 
Team:  
Date: 7/28/2008 
Entry: Today was a bit frustrating, because we were still working on drawing the large section of walls on the northern part of the trench. The reason it was frustrating is because we were constantly having to ask others what was going on with the different wall... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/28/2008 
Entry: Pretty frustrating day today. We wanted to finish the drawing of the wall situation in the NW corner of the square which we began yesterday. However, this turned into a day of scraping, brushing, trying to see something, not seeing what we had seen half a... click here for more... 
 
Name: KJK 
Team:  
Date: 7/29/2008 
Entry: Today Jana and I made more corrections on our drawing of the wall section. Hopefully this will better reflect what we see in that area, and then as more gets excavated, the situation will become more clarified. Unfortunately, Peter has been sick today, so... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2008 
Entry: Thursday and this morning I cleaned the walls of space 340, so that it is now in a state that we could also leave it for next year if we run out of time. While cleaning it became clear that all walls F 5050, 5054/ 5053, 5052 and 2428 are plastered. The pl... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 8/11/2008 
Entry: Small team today as MB has left, Ismail is working somewhere else again since yesterday and others were sick, and myself feeling a bit dizzy and affected by the stomach bug. Also, we had a strong S wind today, which is an unusal weather situation. Don't w... click here for more... 
 
Name: SRW 
Team:  
Date: 8/10/2009 
Entry: Began day with OMV removing the final part of unit 18309 (space 342). During this a suspected Byzantine floor tile (18309.X2) was recovered from the north of the unit (in the slightly more disturbed area in front of the northern buttress [feature 5061]) -... click here for more... 
 
Name: TEB 
Team:  
Date: 8/16/2009 
Entry: Today PTW and myself continued in space 343 excavating 18314. Beneath this rather sterile layer of compact rubble consisting of broken mudbrick, clumps of marly plaster, burnt mudbrick frags, we cut into a layer (which has not yet been assigned a unit num... click here for more... 
 
Name: PTW 
Team:  
Date: 8/17/2009 
Entry: TEB and I had JFB back in space 343 today, after the removal of the neonate from space 342. The three-person team works very well for shifting large amounts of earth. We are able to specialize tasks and move very quickly. It slows down about when TEB i... click here for more... 
 
Name: TEB 
Team:  
Date: 8/17/2009 
Entry: Today PTW, JFB and myself continued in space 343 lifting room fill 18314. The lower coarse of mudbricks underlying the walls defining space 343 (F.5074, 5050=2425, 2426) continue to be exposed as we lift 18314. The fill 18314 contains very few inclusions ... click here for more... 
 

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