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| Name: | JMR |
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| 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... |
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| Name: | JMR |
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| 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... |
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| Name: | JMR |
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| Date: | 7/17/2011 |
| Entry: | First day of West Mound Trench 5 excavations in 2011! While the workmen continued to take out the sandbags from the trench, we started extending the trench towards west and south, between 0.3 to 1m in each direction (topsoil removed as U.15345). The topso... click here for more... |
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| Name: | JMR |
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| Date: | 7/18/2011 |
| Entry: | We finished removing the top soil (15345) today, brushed and fotographed the trench extension afterwards. Already, archaeological contexts start appearing. Over Sp.342, directly on the trench section, a cluster of human bones (F.3340) was found, excavated... click here for more... |
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| Name: | JMR |
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| Date: | 7/19/2011 |
| Entry: | We are moving pleasingly fast in the trench extension of Trench 5. The only limiting factor to the speed of the excavation is the soil sieving, so we are currently working on three sieves.
JHB and RHB finished U.15351 over Space 454. They went down to th... click here for more... |
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| Name: | JMR |
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| Date: | 7/20/2011 |
| Entry: | DLG and PTW finished U.15349, which differs from the other topsoil layers on roughly the same level (15350, 15351) because it contains building materials such as dark grey brick, plaster, lime, burnt red brick and lumps of pale yellow clay. Most of these ... click here for more... |
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| Name: | JMR |
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| Date: | 7/23/2011 |
| Entry: | Thursday 21st July we continued excavating in the trench extension. DLG continued U.15358 west of Sp.343 and 342. DKK, CMB and EMM continued the massive U.15357 over the southern part of Sp.342, where JFB also excavated, documented and removed the skull o... click here for more... |
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| Name: | HLS |
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| Date: | 7/25/2011 |
| Entry: | Last night I spent much of the evening in the human remains lab cleaning the skeleton that JFB removed the other day. It is really good experience, especially if I do go into osteology. I hope I am picking up some basics! This skeleton is quite interestin... click here for more... |
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| Name: | JMR |
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| Date: | 7/28/2011 |
| Entry: | Today, LMS came into the trench for more micromorphological samples. We had a discussion about wall F.2413/5055, which looks more like fill than like wall to the specialists. We discussed the possibility of B.98 consisting of walls and buttresses carved o... click here for more... |
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| Name: | ER |
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| Date: | 8/1/2011 |
| Entry: | Yesterday bench 3334 which is sitting on fill visible in section in space 450 and 451, was taken down by M# from the TP team who found the mudbricks (16925) and mortar (16926) quite similar to the material they had in the LN on the East Mound. Taking it d... click here for more... |
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