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 = 5051

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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: RBW 
Team:  
Date: 7/27/2008 
Entry: (A note to other west mounders who've been having this problem: If you go to Unit/Feature/Space number fields without saving the record, you'll lose anything you've typed in the diary field since Access last automatically saved). Today was the first d... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 8/4/2008 
Entry: Now that we got down to the top levels of walls almost eveywhere in T5, more and more people in the trench get their individual space to dig. RBW and JJW, however, had to stay in today. Good to have AWH to tend the Total Station! The shading shed is reall... click here for more... 
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Name: DEL 
Team:  
Date: 8/5/2008 
Entry: Today Eva and I were investigating the plaster along walls 5051 and 2424. It is pretty strange as it apears to slope inward on both profiles and therefore to undercut itself. PFB wants it to be a ceiling and has decided a meepmeep hole tom dug out in the ... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 8/5/2008 
Entry: Another great day at T5! Weather was pleasant, archaeology fun. AWH and JJW continued 16898 in space 310. There is a very interesting cluster of big potsherds (unit 17208) abutting the plaster 13726 at the E wall 2427. looks as if people have swept stu... click here for more... 
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Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2008 
Entry: First day of the last week, lots of problems solved today! As we got excellent results in defining the architectural pattern this year, we decided to not push ourselves down to floors etc. where we might hit a lot of interesting and time-consuming structu... click here for more... 
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Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 8/10/2008 
Entry: Today DEL started documentation in space 342 while I dug into 17229 to expose more of the newborn skeleton 16835. The skull, however, appeared to continue further W than the white plastery chunks that form the boundaries of the clayey soil of 17299. So I ... click here for more... 
 
Name: DEL 
Team:  
Date: 8/11/2008 
Entry: Today I was mainly excavating the baby skeleton with Brenda. There are no legs but the rest is fine. Mostly I was thinking about bourdieu's concept of the habitus whilst excavating. The fact that the baby was a neonate really got me into ideas of accultur... 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: 8/9/2009 
Entry: Continued in space 342 with OMV, removing a curious grey, ashy fill (18310) that had been discerned yesterday along the eastern edge of (arbitrary layer) fill 18309. Particular caution was exercised due to the presence above the north-western area of 1831... click here for more... 
 

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