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: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/19/2010 
Entry: LKH continued fill unit 15194. XHB exposed floor U.15341 further (fill above: 15196). It is still continuing towards west, but considerably sloping downwards in that part. He stopped cleaning the floor to make a section through the fill above (15196) in t... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/21/2010 
Entry: EMM continued working on the clay ball cluster U.15343 in Space 449. Its outlines are visible now, it is a heap of balls in the eastern part of the trench, fading towards west. IF finished room fill U.15335 in Space 310. At the present level, a seemingly ... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/22/2010 
Entry: Second last day of excavation for this season. BOD continued excavating room fill (15340) in Spaces 450 and 452, typical fill with a lot of building materials and finds. Building 98 is now excavated fairly deep in the central part, not floor yet and the b... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/23/2010 
Entry: Last day of excavation in Trench 5 for this year. EMM continued taking out clay ball cluster U.15343 and removed probably is main part, but still some of it is remaining is Space 449, there was no time to take them out and record. We will protect them... click here for more... 
 
Name: BOD 
Team:  
Date: 8/23/2010 
Entry: Last excavation day. After a big push downwards in space 450 yesterday (about 40cm down), today was spent extending the same level to space 452. Then – polishing the buttresses' plaster, smartening out the profiles, emptying meep-holes, etc. In sum, movin... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/24/2011 
Entry: Excavation in the units with much soil went slowly today as the two sifting workman were missing. DLG continued U.15358, CMB and DKK continued U.15357. HLS continued going down and finding the cut in pit F.3331. It is now rather clear that there must be a... click here for more... 
 
Name: XHB 
Team:  
Date: 7/24/2011 
Entry: Today I continued the excavation of space 446, which I had already worked on during last year's season. This space is bounded by the baulk on the N, a possible bench, F. 3320, and F. 3335 on the W, F. 3321 on the E, and space 452 on the South. The initial... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/25/2011 
Entry: Today DLG, while also doing a great job on the total station, finished his arbitrary layer of topsoil/disturbed soil U.15358 west of Sp.342 and 343. Tomorrow he will clean the planum to see in plan features that we can already see in the sections, includi... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/26/2011 
Entry: BOD continued removing lenses of infill in Spaces 450 and 452 (scraping U.15372). While doing so, she exposed further the plaster lump U.15373 which now really looks like a lump rather than a construction and continues further into the fill under bench F.... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/31/2011 
Entry: JFB drew burial F.3347 today and took out the bones. It turns out that some of the skeleton is outside trench borders, we are currently discussing what to do about that. She was assisted by a micromorphology specialist taking samples to identify rest of s... click here for more... 
 

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