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: 16850

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Name: DLG 
Team:  
Date: 8/20/2012 
Entry: The beginning of my day was spent sweeping b. 106, prepping it for 3D photo scan. After this, I went back to the northeast corner of the room and resumed attempting to understand how the North and Eastern walls joined together. After removing another co... click here for more... 
 
Name: DLG 
Team:  
Date: 8/21/2012 
Entry: Today I continued excavating the northeast corner of b. 105. As yesterday, the corner in general seems much better preserved and more understandable than any of the corners of b. 107. This seems a little strange as the material, both the brick and the m... click here for more... 
 
Name: DLG 
Team:  
Date: 8/22/2012 
Entry: This was the last day of proper excavation. Of course that meant finding unexpected things in places where we are just trying to finish off what we thought we knew. In my case, this meant discovering that the single wall I was removing was actually two ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Tuukka Kaikkonen 
Team:  
Date: 8/5/2013 
Entry: I switched to reopening the wall (F 2424) next to the buttress (F 5063) in order to spread out the work more evenly and be done before building 106 to the east will be reopened. We had not been given exact schedules before but Peter wished I would finish ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Tuukka Kaikkonen 
Team:  
Date: 8/6/2013 
Entry: NB: Initially, unit 16850 was erroneously called 16848. Unit numbers have now been corrected for the coordinates, finds bags and recording sheets. Slow progress on wall 2424 (unit 16850) due to delays following the reopening of building 106, but will g... click here for more... 
 
Name: Tuukka Kaikkonen 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2013 
Entry: Since the workstations would not cooperate earlier, here’s a brief retrospective on Wednesday 7 August. Third day in a row with frustratingly little progress on wall 2424. This far I haven’t had a one single day when I could’ve worked exclusively on th... click here for more... 
 
Name: TSK 
Team:  
Date: 8/11/2013 
Entry: Bajram had given us a recess from our usual daily routine in the trench, which made all of us feel motivated about working in the field again, at least as far as I know. Many members of the team were reassigned in order to have different views on the dif... click here for more... 
 
Name: TMK 
Team:  
Date: 8/11/2013 
Entry: First a few words on archaeopolitics, after that a brief review on today's excavation. NB that from now on I will be using our cryptic three-letter initials in order to protect our identities from nine-eyed intergalactic government spies. Today, a rath... click here for more... 
 
Name: TMK 
Team:  
Date: 8/11/2013 
Entry: If my shoddy sketch of the star/flower/snowflake pendant/button is anything to go by, it had six points. I wonder whether there are any local (palaeo)plants that might look similar? 
 
Name: TSK 
Team:  
Date: 8/12/2013 
Entry: As hoped, exposing the brick was finished before breakfast and after a short discussion we decided, that this would be the last one for now. The rest of the day in the field, I spent on cutting down the wall F.2424 to the level of the wall F.3303 and the ... click here for more... 
 

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