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: 16933

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Name: HLS 
Team:  
Date: 8/1/2011 
Entry: Today was perhaps an especially successful day. Around the site we found a couple of walls, made progress on the burials and we may have found a floor in my pit (F.3331). So finally, the bottom of my pit has been reached. Towards the base there seem to ha... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/1/2011 
Entry: Exciting day in Trench 5. DLG found the plastered face of wall F.3343 (by removing U.16930, probably still disturbed room fill in Space 343). The plaster is medium thick and medium firm and well preserved, but disturbed by a lot of rodent holes. In the... click here for more... 
 
Name: HLS 
Team:  
Date: 8/2/2011 
Entry: Having found a potential floor (U.16932) yesterday, I spent much of the day today following that surface, slowly chipping away and peeling off the fill (U.16933) above. It was slow work and I feel like I've made very little progress. However, the surface ... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/3/2011 
Entry: Our excavation team is slightly reduced, as some members were called away to lab duties, but the trench is still very rewarding. HLS continued exposing the floor in Space 454. It turned out that the fill we left because we interpreted it as original Ch... click here for more... 
 
Name: HLS 
Team:  
Date: 8/6/2011 
Entry: Today the aim was to finish off the pit (F.3331) and expose (and hopefully understand) the plaster surface that has been found underneath. Unfortunately I wasn't able to do this. The floor (U.16933) is getting fairly complicated. It has numerous layers, s... click here for more... 
 

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