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 Unit: 1505

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Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 8/15/1996 
Entry: Didn't get to enter yesterday's diary because of the loss of power and the subsequent difficulties with the data base. Overall yesterday was a pretty slow day digging wise as most areas had some form of recording or difficult problems to deal with. Space ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 8/17/1996 
Entry: Beginning of the third week of excavation. Anwen has been moved from space 106 to space 108 which means work will continue in this area after lunch when Naomi works on finds . Mira continued to dismantle wall 51, taking brick and mortar samples both for... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 8/18/1996 
Entry: Space 105, Mary and Roddy managed to define their cut (1043), the bone cluster (1506) is within the cut but not as a primary deposit. The working theory is that the wall construction and the infilling was a side by side event within the cut, so the wall a... click here for more... 
 
Name: Shahina Farid 
Team: Field Director 
Date: 8/19/1996 
Entry: Today was a 'wall' day in virtually all areas. We're determined to get the walls out by Thursday, started if not finished, but there are so many aspects of the walls to record and we're all at different stages. Roddy and Mary's wall is drawn in elevation,... click here for more... 
 

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