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: 227

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Name: Doru Bogdan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/13/2004 
Entry: Situation in area of squares 1050/1150, 1050/1155, 1055/1150, 1055/1155 After removing the clearing layers 10200 and 10201 we identified a few late units like 10212 (fill) and 10215 (cut) which is just a pit containing sheep bones and an iron nail, ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Doru Bogdan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/26/2004 
Entry: We lifted today more of the building 47 walls. 10232 more precisely. No big surprises there. As we remove the lowest grey bricks the earlier building emerges. We were able to identify red clay walls and the infill between them. It still seams that the su... click here for more... 
 
Name: Candemir Zoroglu 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/26/2005 
Entry: We started to excavate rest part of space 227 with Ahmet Çinici that we excavated last year. We cleaned up the topsoil and tried to see the features on the plan of 2003. We easily saw the south wall (feature 1599), west wall (F2000) and bench (F2001) atte... click here for more... 
 
Name: Candemir Zoroglu 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/27/2005 
Entry: Today we worked in large infill (11955) area of space 227 which has lots of animal bone , pottery , and stones in it. We focused on to northwest corner of space which we think it is filled with colapsed northern wall of the space. After taking the colapse... click here for more... 
 
Name: Candemir Zoroglu 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/2/2005 
Entry: We already trying to remove infill (11985) of our room. We almost remove the fill except a part between the hearth and the dog skeleton that we found yesterday. The dog skeleton (11980) is liying against the benchy thing (or oven?) which is on south wall.... click here for more... 
 
Name: Dan Eddisford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/14/2006 
Entry: Arrived on site on the evening of Suday 4th of June. The first day was spent clearing the pottery lab of stored equipment and helping ready the dig house. The next couple of days were spent cleaning up the South area, under the main shelter, ready for exc... click here for more... 
 
Name: Maria Duggan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/10/2006 
Entry: Not a lot exctiting happening so far but thought I would take the opportunity to describe what's going on in Building 58. After stripping the building and giving it a really good clean I familiarised myself with the features and the previous recording... click here for more... 
 
Name: Maria Duggan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/2/2006 
Entry: Jason and I have decided that its about time I did a video diary for my building- which I'll do tomorrow- so I wanted to write a diary entry as much to gather my thoughts about the progress in building 58 Have been trying really hard to get the buildi... click here for more... 
 
Name: Maria Duggan 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 8/11/2006 
Entry: This is a final diary entry from me as a summary of what I've been doing in Building 58. I also did a video diary on my last day on site which should help if anyone ends up taking over the building. I've only been working in Space 227, concentrating, ... click here for more... 
 

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