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: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 9/3/1997 
Entry: As I am hopefully escaping for a few days I suppose that I should record a few thoughts about space 113/150/151. Southern Wall 75 - removed the eastern half as [2367] - bricks and [2368] - mortar plus [2369] - accumulation behind. This wall is definite... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 9/8/1997 
Entry: Diary Craig 8-9-97 Here goes my second attempt to write a diary of August as the first was kindly wiped by some person who obviously has less working knowledge of computers than an amoebae. This is basically an attempt to summarize most of what has gon... click here for more... 
 
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: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 9/13/1997 
Entry: Couldn’t do a diary on Thursday due to lack of power so here is a delayed weekly entry. Still removing the infilling which has now gone apart from the baulks and some stuff in the north-east which probably wont go this season. Taking out the infilling has... 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: 9/1/1996 
Entry: Bit of a hectic day today, lots of people in a small are again, sometimes I feel I've not been organised enough to keep everyone effectively employed. I beagan the day by equipping the Greek team, we're a bit sghort of supplies at the moment and it's a bi... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 9/3/1996 
Entry: A slow day today, most of which was spent recording walls as I mentioned yesterday. Jon took the opportunity to work on pottery as he'd got to a stage where we need Anwens area to catch up in space 107, now 115. I'm doubtful about the foundation cut Ali ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 9/9/1996 
Entry: A few days have lapsed since I made my last diary entry. The walls to the N and S have been recorded and partially excavated. Jon worked on the S wall or non-wall as it turned out, to the S of 106. There appears not to have been a S wall, or possibly no... click here for more... 
 

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