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: 8/7/2010 
Entry: EMM finished documenting the present state of excavation in Space 341 and moved over to the area east of buttress F.5057, where several large potsherds became visible during excavation last year. Some of them belong to what seems to be a pit (15160, 15162... click here for more... 
 
Name: EMM 
Team:  
Date: 8/7/2010 
Entry: Today I drew and finished Unit 15157 , and went afterwards to Unit 15160. Its space is not yet defined. The Unit lies in the east of space 341 and buttress 5057. The pit is filled with quite a lot of bone, fragmented in rather big pieces (there is espe... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/8/2010 
Entry: Exciting day in Trench 5. PTW started tackling the fill east of buttress or wall F.5075 in the eastern extension of the trench. He defined the outlines of the ceastwards continuation of wall F.5067 and verified that F.5075 is a wall connected to F.5067... click here for more... 
 
Name: EMM 
Team:  
Date: 8/8/2010 
Entry: Today I went on digging the fill of the pit 15160. The borders aren`t clearly defined yet, I am going to look for them tomorrow. The pit fill contains a lot of x-finds, especially worked bone. There are also a lot of bigger pottery sherds and in the S-W ... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2010 
Entry: Another exciting day in Trench 5. EMM continued excavation in the area of clustering pot sherds (15160) between wall F.5067 and buttress F.5057, producing a lot of nice complete pots, articulated animal bones and x-finds. Today she found out that the a... click here for more... 
 
Name: EMM 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2010 
Entry: Going on excavating unit 15160, I had to changed my interpretation of this unit. It looks like we are not dealing with a pit, but with a roomfill, containing a cluster of pot sherds, bone, articulated bone, bone artefacts and already two clay figurines ... click here for more... 
 
Name: EMM 
Team:  
Date: 8/10/2010 
Entry: Continuing excavating Unit 15160, it turned out that this dumping spot is bigger than I expected. In the S-W-area the situation is clear, and in trhe eastern part the roomfill seems to extend till Feature 3324, respecting its outline . The roomfill/ dum... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/10/2010 
Entry: XHB was kept busy today by the fill east of F.3322, which is full of pieces of plaster, pots, a grinding stone and other artefacts. Here he might have found a continuation of the plaster floor (15170) in Space 446, but this still remains unclear. We might... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/11/2010 
Entry: LKH, SCS and PTW continued taking out roomfill in their spaces and exposing the plastered walls (Space 345: 15172; Space 447: 15163, Space 448: 15166). Checking again the easternmost exposed part of Space 447, it now seems that wall F.3323 does continue t... click here for more... 
 
Name: EMM 
Team:  
Date: 8/11/2010 
Entry: Today I finally finished preparing the cluster in unit 15160, so we could take some levels of the major clusters, as well as a fotogrammetry and some additional fotos as impressions of the cluster. 
 

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