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: 173

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Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 5/24/1999 
Entry: Second day spent mindlessly removing infilling (4321) which is probably level VIII to level VII in space 159/173. No sign of floors yet and I will probably stop to clean up and record walls some time tomorrow as the western wall is in severe danger of col... click here for more... 
 
Name: Richard Turnbull 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 5/30/1999 
Entry: Continuing to work in what is now Space 173. The original plan was to take down wall F.484 once I had taken the fill out of the crawlhole ( now F.487 ) but I decided against that this morning - partly because I wanted to wait until I could get photos of t... click here for more... 
 
Name: Richard Turnbull 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 5/31/1999 
Entry: Continuing to work in the north part of Space 173. Today realised (when Peter pointed out that the stuff he was taking off as (4441) was quite different to what I was excavating) that had started to excavate material that quite distinct from the backfill,... click here for more... 
 
Name: Richard Turnbull 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/2/1999 
Entry: Another thought about the bin in the NE corner of the space (488). It’s possible that the bin was post the crawl-hole. I think I mentioned before that it’s possible to see where the wall has been worn away on both sides at the base of the crawl-hole, and ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Peter Moore 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/5/1999 
Entry: Diary of Peter Moore Aged 34¾ at Catalhoyuk I’ve worked here for 2 weeks mostly on site but also on trying to help with the shoring and roof/ My current background is in British commercial archaeology which for lots of reasons does not have on site sp... click here for more... 
 
Name: Lucy Hawkes 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/8/1999 
Entry: I have begun working in space 173 which is has been excavated down to the layer just above the floors. At the southern end of the space we have an oven (502) up against the south section surrounded by an ashy infill which continues northwards under a pot... click here for more... 
 
Name: Lucy Hawkes 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/9/1999 
Entry: Cleaned back the northern half of space 173. There are a number of features in this area. In the northwest corner there is a large area of plaster and orange material which is probably a bin. Slightly further south on the eastern wall (484) there is an... click here for more... 
 
Name: Richard Turnbull 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/13/1999 
Entry: Note: in space 173/163 the crawl-hole I originally numbered as F.487 has been renumbered as F.500 as I took out an existing number. Took down wall at the north end of space 173. ( F.483 ) to about 0.20m above floor level, after first removing wall pl... click here for more... 
 
Name: Lucy Hawkes 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/20/1999 
Entry: 19.06.99 Today I excavated the plaster layers in bin 518 in the northwest corner of space 173. These plaster layers (4725 - 4730) were mainly in the western half of the bin, under bin fill 4618. Some of these just made up the bin edges on the north a... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/24/1999 
Entry: End of another week and only one more to go until the half way point of the season. The start of this week definitely dragged and we didn’t seem to be making any progress but today most of the canvas for the shelter went up and I started digging material ... click here for more... 
 

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