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: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 9/4/1997 
Entry: I feel I must split these diary entries as they’re far too long. This section will recap on the strstigraphical history of the spaces under excavation and the story so far. I can’t actually remember what I wrote when because of the entries that were lost ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 9/15/1997 
Entry: Its been too long since I last entered my diary and too much has happened to recap on specifics so I might just ramble on for a bit. I have to say losing some diary entries was demoralising specially as time is so tight. The power problem has been a real... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 9/29/1997 
Entry: Shahina: Last Diary 29th Sept. Trenches are backfilled, most of the house has been packed and only the very last of the team are here. As usual the close up has been hectic, however many days we allow at the end of the project there never seems to be ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 8/4/1996 
Entry: Work in Mellaart's area of excavation started today by clearing the overgrowth that had erupted across the areas of excavation since last season. Erosion in the area had been expected but the overgrowth was a surprise and had damaged considerably the hori... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 8/5/1996 
Entry: Pre-excavation photographs were taken of Space 105. On clearing the NW corner of the space, by Jon's area of excavation from last season, Roddy and Mary believed that the midden cut Jon had defined and partially dug, was sealed by the east wall of space 1... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 8/7/1996 
Entry: Yesterday Roddy and Mary continued excavating midden deposits in Space 105. Excavating south of Jon's area from last season an upper fill (1050) was excavated from within cut (1041), that apparently cut through a massive and compact deposit of building ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 8/8/1996 
Entry: For some reason today was a lot less stressfull, maybe because everyone is getting used to the system and of course we're now more or less fully equiped. Roddy and Mary excavated (1066) overlain by (1064), the reason being that it was a thin ashy laye... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 8/10/1996 
Entry: Space 105, Roddy and Mary continued to excavate what for now appears to be part of a consolidation packing for the SW walls, these series of deposits lie in a diagonal cut (1041) in this SW corner. Below (1067), which was a compound layer of building debr... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 8/11/1996 
Entry: After last nights discussion on the unit sheet, I spent the day writing the instructions on how to complete the form as well, it's not quite finished. I also drew up an ammended version of the sheet, unfortunately the photocopying shop was closed and I ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 8/12/1996 
Entry: I have to say that I had an awful day today, truely awful. It started off bad and ended worse. The morning was kicked off with a difference of opinion on the blocking between spaces 108 and 107. I am really unhappy about the pace of work in this particula... click here for more... 
 

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