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: 15353

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Name: JMR 
Team:  
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... 
 
Name: HLS 
Team:  
Date: 7/23/2011 
Entry: The first week has gone by very quickly, and despite the hold up at the start because of the sandbags still in the trench, a lot of soil has been moved and much of the team have now restarted excavating the buildings. Today, I was initially attempting to ... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
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... 
 
Name: HLS 
Team:  
Date: 7/24/2011 
Entry: Today I continued on U. 15355. It was slower work today since there were no workers on sieves so we had to sieve all the soil ourselves. This was probably especially limiting for those of us still moving large amounts of soil. The pit (F. 3331) has a lot ... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/24/2011 
Entry: Excavation in the units with much soil went slowly today as the two sifting workman were missing. DLG continued U.15358, CMB and DKK continued U.15357. HLS continued going down and finding the cut in pit F.3331. It is now rather clear that there must be a... click here for more... 
 

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