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: 16973

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Name: Jana Rogasch 
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Date: 7/17/2012 
Entry: Starting Excavation in West Mound Trench 5 this season. We arrived Friday 13th July and have been cleaning the trench from sand bags and soil until yesterday, when we started excavating after breakfast. Aim of this season is to remove those buildings w... click here for more... 
 
Name: Jana Rogasch 
Team:  
Date: 7/18/2012 
Entry: JFB, JHB, PTW and I continued removing fill 16976 to expose floor 16977. We have now uncovered it in the whole of Space 449, the eastern half of Space 450 and parts of Space 452. 16977 in Space 449 seems to be a layer of floor (no unit number yet) overlap... click here for more... 
 
Name: Eugen 
Team:  
Date: 7/19/2012 
Entry: Unit 16973 was a thin layer of fill in space 341. It was more compact than the overlaying soil and it was differentiated from the bottom layer by a thin lens of soil mixed charcoal and marl. First we tested the stratigraphy with a sondage in the middle of... click here for more... 
 
Name: Jana Rogasch 
Team:  
Date: 7/19/2012 
Entry: In Space 341, EUR and KTX removed fill layer 16973 and continued scraping the remainders of fill from the walls. In places it is difficult to distinguish fill from wall, especially with buttress F. 5057. Layer 16980 was not yet started. It contains an ash... click here for more... 
 
Name: KTX 
Team:  
Date: 7/19/2012 
Entry: Work in Sp. 341 resumed within a new layer of room-fill called U.16973, which is different in compactness to the preceding material. This levels is much thicker and as we are getting closer to the supposed floor level the amount of finds, including many c... click here for more... 
 

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