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 Space: 154

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Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/3/1998 
Entry: A fairly successful day. All the elevations were finished so we got back to removing infilling. In the south-east corner of space 154 we removed just over 0.4m [making a total of 0.7m] and came down onto the tops of some features, we will need to get lowe... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/4/1998 
Entry: Another fun day in the North Area. As the infilling is now below the level of the walls I have tried to split the team up by space with an experienced person in each one. Effectively this means Adnan in 155, Åsa in 156, Mark in 157 and me in 154 with Shar... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/6/1998 
Entry: End of week three and progress continues to be quite good. In space 156 Åsa seems to have almost reached the level of the floors and has begun taking out the second half of the room, so far no features have appeared. The blocking between spaces 156 and 15... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/8/1998 
Entry: Start of the fourth week. Things have begun to slow down a bit and this is likely to be the start of a trend. The infilling is now probably down near to floors almost everywhere and we will spend quite a bit of time cleaning up the walls which is obviousl... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/9/1998 
Entry: In space 154 we continued removing the deposits left against the walls. This revealed that the southern wall 224 has two quite large recessed features and the eastern wall 229 has one smaller one. The exact function of these is unclear as we have left the... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/10/1998 
Entry: Another day mainly taken up by wall cleaning. In space 156 Åsa has laid out a grid as we appear to be coming down onto floors. In 157 Mark has removed some of the ‘collapse’ brick rubble deposit and has revealed the top of the threshold between 157 and 15... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/11/1998 
Entry: Due to the holiday this is the effective end of week four which was only four days long. Åsa was ill so the only thing that happened in Space 156 was that Sharon cleaned the walls. In Space 157 Mark contined removing infilling and exposing more of the bin... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/15/1998 
Entry: Back again after the holidays, for those who managed to get away at least. Adnan away so nothing happening in space 155. In 156 Åsa removed part of the collapsed wall. In 157 Mark removed some more infilling from the bins. In Space 154 Serdar removed infi... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/18/1998 
Entry: Half way through the week and I am reasonably happy. Adnan is back and has started removing more infilling in space 155 but still no signs of floors although there is evidence that some raised structure at the souhern end has been truncated. Åsa in 156 ha... click here for more... 
 
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... 
 

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