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: 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: 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: 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: DEL 
Team:  
Date: 8/6/2008 
Entry: Today I continued excavating in space 342, mostly extracting the middle of the room fill with a mattock and shovel to leave the interesting edges free for trowelling tomorrow. There were a few fragments of bone and some near complete pots next to the butt... click here for more... 
 
Name: DEL 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2008 
Entry: Continued excavating in space 342 today, particualrly around the buttress which goes into the profile (5062). Nothing particularly intersting came out, except a few larger pot sherds in the Northern part. We also cleaned te whole of the space back just b... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/30/2011 
Entry: DLG and JFB finished the drawing of burial F.3342 today. Afterwards, JFB proceeded to excavate the other burial (F.3347) in the disturbed fill above Sp.342. DLG tried to follow wall F.3344 southwards and noticed that is is cut by a pit that also cut wall ... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/31/2011 
Entry: JFB drew burial F.3347 today and took out the bones. It turns out that some of the skeleton is outside trench borders, we are currently discussing what to do about that. She was assisted by a micromorphology specialist taking samples to identify rest of s... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/2/2011 
Entry: Another exciting day in Trench 5. DLG started cleaning the plastered face of wall F.3344 (removed fill U.16930). Afterwards, the base of the wall became visible; it is sitting on very homogeneous grey fill. It looks nearly like nicely sieved soil and m... 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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