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: 15385

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Name: JFB 
Team:  
Date: 8/1/2011 
Entry: Today I continued work on F. 3342 and found 3 iron nails in the burial fill 15385. Thus far, it has been very compact up until I reached this iron nail level, possibly indicating that the initial mudbrick upper layer is discontinued, and this is the layer... click here for more... 
 
Name: RHB 
Team:  
Date: 8/1/2011 
Entry: Today I finally closed unit 15174 after working on it over the past week by first drawing and then removing the final finds on the base of the unit. In the process of removing the finds two more artefacts worthy of X find status, another lump of ground st... click here for more... 
 
Name: RHB 
Team:  
Date: 8/2/2011 
Entry: today I resumed excavating U. 15385 with JFB. At the moment the skeleton seems to be of a baby and very far down and disturbed. Because of its depth and narrow size it is quite awkward to excavate but nevertheless is providing an interesting and very diff... click here for more... 
 
Name: JFB 
Team:  
Date: 8/2/2011 
Entry: Today I continued work on leveling burial fill 15391 from Sk. 15390, and then started to continue work on burial F. 3342 unit 15385. RHB assisted with the excavation of this unit, and we located a number of iron nails (6 so far), as well as isolated human... click here for more... 
 
Name: RHB 
Team:  
Date: 8/3/2011 
Entry: Today I continued excavating U.15385 with JFB. The burial is very far down and although at first we thought it was a disturbed baby burial it actually seems like there are the remains of two bodies, one baby and one juvenile aged around 6. This second ske... click here for more... 
 
Name: JFB 
Team:  
Date: 8/3/2011 
Entry: Today RHB and I continued work on Sk. 15383 F. 3342, and finally reached the juvenile skeleton. It appears in decent condition, but is disturbed highly on the right hand side (the femur is where the humerus should be on the right). Though, the left hand s... click here for more... 
 
Name: JFB 
Team:  
Date: 8/4/2011 
Entry: Today I continued work on F. 3342 U. 15383, which I was able to plan and lift today - I was surprised I got it done that quickly. While I was finishing the levels for the drawing, I had DJG come over to assist with this, and unfortunately as soon as he re... click here for more... 
 

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