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: 15366

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Name: JMR 
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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: DKK 
Team:  
Date: 7/25/2011 
Entry: Today I left CMB to finish unit 15357 on her own and started excavating unit 15366 (space 340). The walls have already been uncovered in a previous season, so I am clearing the fill, hoping to find the floor level. So far it is not overly exciting. A fe... 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: DKK 
Team:  
Date: 7/26/2011 
Entry: I finished unit 15366 in space 340 today. It was not terribly exciting, with few finds in the fill. Lots of hard, red plaster inclusions made levelling quite difficult. Afterwards, I began a new arbitrary layer, unit 15374. Still lots of chunks of plaste... click here for more... 
 
Name: DKK 
Team:  
Date: 7/27/2011 
Entry: Today I finished unit 15374, an arbitrary layer of room fill in space 340. Like the previous unit, 15366, there were realtively few finds, though large pieces of pot sherd turned up. I also had two X-finds: A clay ball and a blue bead fragment. The fill i... click here for more... 
 

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