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: 15355

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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: HLS 
Team:  
Date: 7/25/2011 
Entry: Last night I spent much of the evening in the human remains lab cleaning the skeleton that JFB removed the other day. It is really good experience, especially if I do go into osteology. I hope I am picking up some basics! This skeleton is quite interestin... click here for more... 
 
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: HLS 
Team:  
Date: 7/26/2011 
Entry: I started the day today trying to clean and level the current base level of the pit (U.15355) and I still have not really quite finished. I only removed a few wheelbarrows of soil today since the ground is extremely compact, I had a large backlog of finds... click here for more... 
 

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