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: 16936

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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: EMM 
Team:  
Date: 8/1/2011 
Entry: Today I finished U 15380, and tried to level out space 449, but I think I wasn`t particularly successful, as it is still full of bumps. When taking out the big lumps of wallplaster left in the space (belonging to U 15380) we took working shots from the up... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/2/2011 
Entry: Another exciting day in Trench 5. DLG started cleaning the plastered face of wall F.3344 (removed fill U.16930). Afterwards, the base of the wall became visible; it is sitting on very homogeneous grey fill. It looks nearly like nicely sieved soil and m... click here for more... 
 
Name: EMM 
Team:  
Date: 8/2/2011 
Entry: Today I started excavating U 16936. This unit is an arbitrary layer in the roomfill of space 449, created in order to have a look what happens under the wall plaster lens 15380 and roomfill unit 15370. I started to go down in an arbitrary layer of circa 7... click here for more... 
 
Name: EMM 
Team:  
Date: 8/3/2011 
Entry: Today I finally discovered the surface (U 16947) in space 449. I tried in the morning to level the rest of the arbitrary unit 16936 from yesterday in front of F 3326, when there turned up a very loose and crumbly lens of burned soil, mixed with medium siz... 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... 
 

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