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’d spent practically the whole of last Friday catching up on all my diary entries, Craig had entered one during the week and by yesterday all was lost. Anya doesn’t understand what happened and we can only imagine that they were accidently wiped off by ... 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: 8/10/1996 
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: 8/10/1997 
Entry: This is my first diary entry for the 1997 season and exactly a week since the first day of excavation in the Mellaart area. Prior to my arrival Roddy and Craig had spent much of a week removing last years packing and backfill that we'd placed over the ex... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 8/20/1997 
Entry: As I'm so far behind I've taken some sound advice which is to enter daily events and try to catch up in my own time as and when appropraite. So, today was quite eventful. Firstly, Ian has returned after a weeks absence, and 'though there were no major ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 8/21/1997 
Entry: I thought today would be a day to catch up with my backlog of work but unfortunately it wasn't to be, by the end of the day I'd taken 7 tours around the Mellaart area. We had a priority dscussion on Craigs pit cut 2050, discussing in particular the upp... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 8/23/1997 
Entry: Ian and I talked strategy first thing this morning, about what could be achieved by the 2nd Sept. for press day. The walls and floors of space 117 should be exposed which we were aiming for anyway, Kate and Lucy have already started on the west section, ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 6/9/1999 
Entry: Shahina 7th June Too much has happened since I last wrote a diary, too much to recap on so I’m just going to jot down a few things. I can only cover the archaeology in general terms as I’m not often found with a trowel in my hand on site and I’ve not... click here for more... 
 

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