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: 16858

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Name: TEB 
Team:  
Date: 7/26/2008 
Entry: Another busy and hectic Monday - but we have spaces finally! We have unveiled two new spaces. Space 340 is made up of four walls, features 2428 (units 16853 and 16854), 5052 (16855 and 16856), 5053 (units 16857 and 16858) and 2413 (units 16851 and 1685... click here for more... 
 
Name: GWN 
Team:  
Date: 7/31/2012 
Entry: Last night it was raining and this caused several problems in our trench. The tent was not able to hold the water on several places so it made dozen of wet areas in the buildings we excavate. As I reached till the supposed bottom level of the buttress (U.... click here for more... 
 
Name: GWN 
Team:  
Date: 8/1/2012 
Entry: The work on buttress U. 16858 continued, but today much slower as we got information from it. Instead of chopping it down I started to scrape its frontal (western) part and absolutely new ‘image’ appeared. Many horizontal lines and different colors emerge... click here for more... 
 
Name: GWN 
Team:  
Date: 8/2/2012 
Entry: Today was short working day. I continued with the work on the buttress U. 16858 and taking samples out of it. During the filling of bags for samples, flotation and analysis no changes occurred within the buttress. Its interior had the same features as tho... click here for more... 
 
Name: GWN 
Team:  
Date: 8/4/2012 
Entry: The removal of buttress U.16858 continued. As we are going down to its bottom more of its construction features becomes clearer. Today after scraping and cleaning of one mud brick/slab layer we determined that they are in larger size and consisted of one ... click here for more... 
 
Name: GWN 
Team:  
Date: 8/5/2012 
Entry: Finally I reached the bottom of buttress U. 16858. After few days of removing hugest of buttresses within building 98, the 1516 liters of dirt were transported out of the building. Making such amount to disappear should be a new discipline in the Olympi... click here for more... 
 

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