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: 15341

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Name: XHB 
Team:  
Date: 8/19/2010 
Entry: Today I continued working on the floor in the northeast corner of the trench, which has now been assigned Unit number 15341. Its southern boundary was determined, although it is very irregular and its connection to the wall that we thought would be closin... click here for more... 
 
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: XHB 
Team:  
Date: 8/21/2010 
Entry: After a day's pause, I continued excavating the floor in unit 15341. The first thing I noticed this morning was that the plaster had dried out on some areas and had started cracking. In order to prevent this situation from getting worse in the coming days... 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: XHB 
Team:  
Date: 8/23/2010 
Entry: Final day of actual excavation. I spent most of today drawing the floor on U. 15341, as well as the adjacent U. 15342 (F.3330). Once finished I helped JFB draw the section of the northern baulk of the trench. 
 
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: XHB 
Team:  
Date: 7/26/2011 
Entry: Unit 15371 was fully excavated today. Three different areas can be distinguished in this unit: a clearly identified plaster floor, a compacted yellowish brown sandy surface (it is unclear whether this is part of the same floor) and an area of fill. ... click here for more... 
 
Name: XHB 
Team:  
Date: 8/1/2011 
Entry: Today's entry is a summary of the work carried out in Space 446 during the past two days and including this morning. As I mentioned in my diary entry of 27.7.2011, a section was made on the southern area of plaster floor 15371 with the hope of gaini... click here for more... 
 

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