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 = 5067

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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: TEB 
Team:  
Date: 8/26/2009 
Entry: Over the last few days JMR has been taking down space 310 slowly in order to expose any cultural surface that may be present. Today JMR began recording the elevations in space 310, having stopped excavating at unit 18348, suspected to be a surface. Featur... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/8/2010 
Entry: Exciting day in Trench 5. PTW started tackling the fill east of buttress or wall F.5075 in the eastern extension of the trench. He defined the outlines of the ceastwards continuation of wall F.5067 and verified that F.5075 is a wall connected to F.5067... click here for more... 
 
Name: PTW 
Team:  
Date: 8/8/2010 
Entry: I’ve begun to work in space 447 as of today. Following the plaster outline visible in the plan, I was able to expose the northwest corner of buttress F.3319. While excavating the fill unit 15163 early in the day, I came across two large tiles, which I a... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2010 
Entry: Another exciting day in Trench 5. EMM continued excavation in the area of clustering pot sherds (15160) between wall F.5067 and buttress F.5057, producing a lot of nice complete pots, articulated animal bones and x-finds. Today she found out that the a... click here for more... 
 
Name: PTW 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2010 
Entry: Today was full of revelations. The space where I have been excavating has now been defined as Sp. 447. Sometime before breakfast I discovered a compact surface, which turned out to be a plastered floor (Unit 15167) interfaced with the surrounding walls... click here for more... 
 
Name: EMM 
Team:  
Date: 8/10/2010 
Entry: Continuing excavating Unit 15160, it turned out that this dumping spot is bigger than I expected. In the S-W-area the situation is clear, and in trhe eastern part the roomfill seems to extend till Feature 3324, respecting its outline . The roomfill/ dum... click here for more... 
 
Name: PTW 
Team:  
Date: 8/11/2010 
Entry: Unit 15163 in space 447 is nearly excavated completely. Only some bit of fill remains situated between F.5075 and F.3319. This small area is very rich in small and X finds. Some concentrations of a bright red pigment appeared associated with a partial ... click here for more... 
 
Name: EMM 
Team:  
Date: 8/12/2010 
Entry: I spend the day with digging the eastern part of unit 15160. The S-E corner seems to be disturbed by animal burrows right where we would expect the corner of the walls 5067 and 3324. The situation in the N-E corner became clearer. The cluster with the sh... click here for more... 
 

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