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 = 5061

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Name: TEB 
Team:  
Date: 8/3/2008 
Entry: Third attempt to write a diary. Lets hope its my last. In short - room fill 16896 with Dan and Monique. Discovered cluster, unit 16899, a number of broken ceramic sherds running into the western profile and apparently laying on a burnt deposit. This clust... click here for more... 
 
Name: DEL 
Team:  
Date: 8/3/2008 
Entry: Depressing to start every diary entry with an apology for lack of entries, so I won't. Today TEB and MIB took down a room fill, 16896. We also found a cluster of pots which is now 16899 in the North-Western corner. We also sorted out the buttresses so we ... click here for more... 
 
Name: TEB 
Team:  
Date: 8/6/2008 
Entry: An amazing day! Just met Martin Carver. Archaeology today was impressive. Just towards the end of the day JMR in room fill 16880 (space 340). DEL continued to go down in space 342 taking out 16896 - 57 buckets! Sieving with Ishmael has made a real diff... click here for more... 
 
Name: TEB 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2009 
Entry: The total station was set up today for its use in Trench 5. Two new steps were created along the western section of T5 along eastings 690 and 691. SO was excavating a suspected pit fill (18307) and its cut (18308) in space 340 that respects F2428 in t... 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... 
 
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: SRW 
Team:  
Date: 8/11/2009 
Entry: Spent today back in space 342. A combination of careful cleaning of (arbitrary layer) unit 18311 and intentional overcutting of a pair of pits (to reveal snapshots of vertical stratigraphy) either side of the space's northern buttress (i.e. immediately ea... click here for more... 
 
Name: SRW 
Team:  
Date: 8/18/2009 
Entry: The removal of unit 18328 in space 342 was today completed, and the more colourful (brighter brown-yellow) layer beneath has been defined as unit 18341. Excavation of unit 18328 has revealed the extent of the potential bench installation (unit 18310) a... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 8/27/2009 
Entry: This year's season was very efficient due to an excellent team, and as TEB has taken over the technical part of the diary I had done during the previous three years, this day of recovery from a feaverish cold is the time to summarize my view of our result... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/10/2011 
Entry: Second last day in the trench, and a exciting day. Apart from very nice small finds, and in general many finds, we attributed two new building numbers: The building encompassing Spaces 310 and 454 is now Building 106, since its southern wall (F.3352) was ... click here for more... 
 

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