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: 181

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Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/26/1999 
Entry: Numbered area under building 18 as space 181. Assigned number (4709) to stray finds which pop out of section and I can’t tell the context but must pre-date level X. Excavated the features cutting (4710). At the west end was a big pit that isn’t bottomed... click here for more... 
 
Name: Richard Turnbull 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/18/1999 
Entry: The oven area I abandoned 2 weeks ago was inherited by Anwen and now that she has more or less completed this area we have been able to sort out the matrix . We did end up deciding - after checking the digital photos, plans and the sketches on the unit s... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/20/1999 
Entry: Continue mattocking down the western half of space 181, the two stablings (4850) and (4517) have gone as have two spits of midden (4518) and (4865). An intersting collection of unit numbers as we are working from two different lists, shoul confuse people ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/27/1999 
Entry: Having a great time after my short holiday doing lots of paperwork as the sections are being drawn and the shoring has not arrived. As I have got basically up to date on my own stuff I have been doing some incredibly processual stuff that Ian wants groupi... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/9/1999 
Entry: Have been really busy trying to keep up with paperwork as we attempt to get ready for shoring before Lindsay arrives. Have just managed to finish excavating to the required depth today which is just over 1001m OD, now we just need to photograph and draw l... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/12/1999 
Entry: End of week and we have managed to finish drawing sections, dry sieving and got paperwork up to date for space 181. Everything is now ready for the next stage of digging after the shoring has been erected. We would seem to have around 1.8m still to go and... click here for more... 
 
Name: Jez Taylor 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/21/1999 
Entry: Dear dairy, it's been a long time. I've been busy using up the last of my holiday allowance, but the main reason for my lengthy absence, has been that Craig has largely taken over the recording of the pre-level 10 midden deposits. As we excavated within t... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 9/8/1999 
Entry: At 14.17 we finally hit the lake marl at the bottom of space 181. We will have one more day of digging tomorrow but that should just about do it. It looks like everything from (5324) on down is alluvial backswamp clay. (5324) to (5238) are basically very ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Richard Turnbull 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 9/9/1999 
Entry: I moved out of space 181 about a week ago where I’d been working moving spoil since finishing in Building 23. Helped Jon and Charlie remove floors in their respective spaces. Jon has been away the last couple of days so working in space 182 while he’s gon... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 9/19/1999 
Entry: Final day of digging in space 181, we removed the rest of the lowest layer (5329) revealing bright almost white marl over the entire area. Having revealed a larger area it looks like the idea that the whole area has been pitted a la KOPAL is correct. Got ... click here for more... 
 

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