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: 16899

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Name: TEB 
Team:  
Date: 8/3/2008 
Entry: Third attempt to write a diary. Lets hope its my last. In short - room fill 16896 with Dan and Monique. Discovered cluster, unit 16899, a number of broken ceramic sherds running into the western profile and apparently laying on a burnt deposit. This clust... click here for more... 
 
Name: DEL 
Team:  
Date: 8/3/2008 
Entry: Depressing to start every diary entry with an apology for lack of entries, so I won't. Today TEB and MIB took down a room fill, 16896. We also found a cluster of pots which is now 16899 in the North-Western corner. We also sorted out the buttresses so we ... click here for more... 
 
Name: ER 
Team:  
Date: 8/4/2008 
Entry: Now that we got down to the top levels of walls almost eveywhere in T5, more and more people in the trench get their individual space to dig. RBW and JJW, however, had to stay in today. Good to have AWH to tend the Total Station! The shading shed is reall... click here for more... 
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Name: DEL 
Team:  
Date: 8/5/2008 
Entry: Today Eva and I were investigating the plaster along walls 5051 and 2424. It is pretty strange as it apears to slope inward on both profiles and therefore to undercut itself. PFB wants it to be a ceiling and has decided a meepmeep hole tom dug out in the ... click here for more... 
 
Name: DEL 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2008 
Entry: Continued excavating in space 342 today, particualrly around the buttress which goes into the profile (5062). Nothing particularly intersting came out, except a few larger pot sherds in the Northern part. We also cleaned te whole of the space back just b... click here for more... 
 

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