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 = 5055

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Name: TEB 
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Date: 7/26/2008 
Entry: Another busy and hectic Monday - but we have spaces finally! We have unveiled two new spaces. Space 340 is made up of four walls, features 2428 (units 16853 and 16854), 5052 (16855 and 16856), 5053 (units 16857 and 16858) and 2413 (units 16851 and 1685... click here for more... 
 
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: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/26/2008 
Entry: Today there is one good and one bad message about the area Katie and me are working on. The good message is that after hours of scraping we identified four walls (features 5054, 5055, 5056 and 5057) which close space 341, the room whose fill we have been ... 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: 7/31/2008 
Entry: Today and yesterday were really good days out in the trench, despite PFB still being slightly ill, UY hitting his head on the sieve installation, and a few minor hand injuries while troweling ferociously. The trench looks more straightforward each day as ... click here for more... 
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Name: EMM 
Team:  
Date: 8/4/2010 
Entry: Diary entry of 03.08.2010 Today SCS and I excavated and finished Unit 15139 in Space 341. This roomfill looks very heterogeneous, interesting are especially the huge chunks of burned and unburned clay which seem to gather next to the walls/buttresses.... click here for more... 
 
Name: EMM 
Team:  
Date: 8/5/2010 
Entry: Today I went on digging unit 15152 in space 341. The walls 5055 and 5056 are very disturbed by animal burrows, what makes the search for the earlier phases of the wall slightly more difficult. In the South - East - corner, where a mudbrick is looking i... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/10/2010 
Entry: XHB was kept busy today by the fill east of F.3322, which is full of pieces of plaster, pots, a grinding stone and other artefacts. Here he might have found a continuation of the plaster floor (15170) in Space 446, but this still remains unclear. We might... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/11/2010 
Entry: LKH, SCS and PTW continued taking out roomfill in their spaces and exposing the plastered walls (Space 345: 15172; Space 447: 15163, Space 448: 15166). Checking again the easternmost exposed part of Space 447, it now seems that wall F.3323 does continue t... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/15/2010 
Entry: PTW removed the possible installation F.3325 today (the "bukranium"). It sits on a strange bump of plaster, mortar and mud brick (?), but does not seem to be an installation, as I believe - rather a coincidence. He also found the continuation of the floor... click here for more... 
 

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