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: 15360

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Name: JHB 
Team:  
Date: 8/1/2011 
Entry: Unit 15359 is completed. Orignially it was thought that 15359 would be a quick unit, taking down the ~30cm stepp left over from previous excavations down to the same level as the adjacent roomfill. However, it soon turned interesting/complicated. Notably,... click here for more... 
 
Name: CMB 
Team:  
Date: 8/1/2011 
Entry: Now, I excavate in the unit 15360 on the space 342. It’s a room fill with buttress and pottery cluster on the last unit. With JHB, we have drawn the plan of this area to indicate artifact concentration and limits. We have begun to excavate the central par... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/1/2011 
Entry: Exciting day in Trench 5. DLG found the plastered face of wall F.3343 (by removing U.16930, probably still disturbed room fill in Space 343). The plaster is medium thick and medium firm and well preserved, but disturbed by a lot of rodent holes. In the... click here for more... 
 
Name: JHB 
Team:  
Date: 8/2/2011 
Entry: Today CMB and I continued to excavate unit 15360 and romove the fill episode that defines it. At the base of 15360, two areas were identified, with a ~15cm strip running between them. These units appear to be fill. In the northeastern area of 342, unit 16... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/2/2011 
Entry: Another exciting day in Trench 5. DLG started cleaning the plastered face of wall F.3344 (removed fill U.16930). Afterwards, the base of the wall became visible; it is sitting on very homogeneous grey fill. It looks nearly like nicely sieved soil and m... click here for more... 
 
Name: CMB 
Team:  
Date: 8/2/2011 
Entry: We have continued to excavate the central area of the unit 15360 (space 342) to understand how was organized the concentration of finds (pottery and bones). We observed this area wasn’t homogeneous and there were a lot of perturbations as animal burrows f... click here for more... 
 
Name: CMB 
Team:  
Date: 8/3/2011 
Entry: I have continued to excavate unit 15360. It is composed of a first layer (˜10cm) characterized by a dark and fine sediment. An orange loose layer (˜20cm) follows the fill; some finds has been registered (bones, pottery, obsidian) but this level seems to b... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2011 
Entry: We are preparing towards the end of the field season this year, and so far all spaces and excavation areas seem to come to a smooth and logical end ... let’s hope nothing unexpected (burials, gold, ovens) will happen in the next days! DKK drew Space 34... click here for more... 
 

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