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: 470

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Name: James T 
Team:  
Date: 7/3/2012 
Entry: OK time for a diary entry now that the chaos of the last week or two is beginning to subside. Things are underway in the South and we have finally built up a head of steam. Several meetings later and we have a clear understanding of Ian’s medium and lo... click here for more... 
 
Name: Arek Klimowicz 
Team:  
Date: 7/5/2012 
Entry: On 1st of July I started work from scraping and cleaning North [F.4098] and West [3071] faces of the walls of the southern room (ante-chamber) of the Shrine 8. The activity aimed to record (by photo) stratygraphy of the structures left by Mellaart in the... click here for more... 
 
Name: Arek Klimowicz 
Team:  
Date: 7/5/2012 
Entry: After consultation and taking into consideration prospective areas to excavate on 3rd of july, it has been decided that work should be concentrate particularly on the west face of wall aligned from the top to B.97. The above idea was supported by priority... click here for more... 
 
Name: Arek Klimowicz 
Team:  
Date: 7/5/2012 
Entry: On 4th of July the field work concentrated on the exploration of the room fill [U. 19390] placed within the space 470. In its eastern part it was evidently truncated and left fragmentarily by Mellaart (just as the other layers above the fill [19389, 19388... click here for more... 
 
Name: Arek Klimowicz 
Team:  
Date: 7/5/2012 
Entry: Today (5th of July) we have continued the excavation of U.19390 that most likely must be considered as the room fill dumped deliberately inside an open area between four walls that had been evidenced as space 470. Today execution revealed more plasters se... click here for more... 
 
Name: Arek Klimowicz 
Team:  
Date: 7/7/2012 
Entry: Today (7th of July), together with Jedrzej we have been continuing excavation of the room infill [19390] within the space 470. During mentioned activity we have pulled out 1320 litters of the pretty firm deposit. In consequence we are 30 cm lower than on... click here for more... 
 
Name: Arek Klimowicz 
Team:  
Date: 7/8/2012 
Entry: 8th of July appeared to be an interesting day. We have been still continuing excavation of the U. 19390 within the space 470. Except for pulling out additional 980 liters of the deposit we recognized a different layer below the investigated room infil... click here for more... 
 
Name: Arek Klimowicz 
Team:  
Date: 7/9/2012 
Entry: The 9th of July was even better than the 8th. We have started removing the remnants of the deposit 19390 that was left intentionally by us approximately 10cm along the walls in order to protect plasters. During the excavation we revealed whole Eastern ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Arek Klimowicz 
Team:  
Date: 7/10/2012 
Entry: After 6 days of work we have eventually completed the excavation of the room-fill u.19390. Today we focus mainly on removing the remnants of the deposit adjacent to the Walls in Western part of the space 470. ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Arek Klimowicz 
Team:  
Date: 7/11/2012 
Entry: Today after 3-D modeling of the space 470 and its surroundings we started excavating new unit within the space that was registered under the number 19391. It was placed below previous executed fill [19390] and seems to be a deposit situated on the floor... click here for more... 
 

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