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: 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: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 9/24/1997 
Entry: Finished working in spaces 150/151 several days ago and have been busy knocking down various walls and doing paperwork since then. This diary is basically a note for whoever digs the area next year whether it is me or someone else. Spaces 150/151 were ... 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: 8/23/1997 
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: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/20/1998 
Entry: Back again and I have risen to the dizzy heights of supervising the North area, lots of extra responsibility and stress but no extra advantages or money. I would have been more happy to come back as a humble excavator and work on my oven and the rest of s... click here for more... 
 
Name: Richard Turnbull 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/19/1998 
Entry: 19/7/98 (Not full day on site.) familiarising with spaces 150/151. Cleaning-checked with WM about half sectioning oven F87 collapse and fill.Entered By: Richard Turnbull 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/20/1998 
Entry: Another week over, time is starting to fly by. In space 154 we are now down to surfaces all over and I have photographed the baulks. Next week we will record these, sample them and get rid of them. A small post-hole has turned up in the north-east corner.... click here for more... 
 
Name: Richard Turnbull 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/5/1998 
Entry: 5/8/98 Excavated plaster layer [ 3159]. BM. Came up took samples for chemical analysis on section on N. side of trench through backfill and platform material. Discussed taking samples of occup. Deposit partially visible at present once it has been fully ... click here for more... 
 

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