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: 15371

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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: XHB 
Team:  
Date: 7/25/2011 
Entry: Excavation of space 446 and unit 15364 was continued today. What yesterday was identified as a possible wall running in a NE-SW direction (into the N baulk and F. 3320) was excavated. The interpretation of this feature as a wall remains unclear to me, par... 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: 7/27/2011 
Entry: Today I finished drawing the plaster floor that was exposed yesterday (U. 15371). After this, I moved on to lift the floor and excavate a new 10 cm artificial layer of Space 446. As before, no features were found in the southern area (near the 'entrance d... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/27/2011 
Entry: Apart from excavation, micromorphological samples were taken in our trench today by LMS. The specialists came in to take samples of three deposits and surfaces in the southern section of Space 342 and of wall F.2424 in Space 342. We intend to sample wall ... 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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