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: 16977

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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: 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: Jana Rogasch 
Team:  
Date: 7/21/2012 
Entry: I forgot to mention something earlier: After talking to Lisa G about this, we decided to, from last Thursday 19th July on, in layers with many clay balls not treat the balls as x-finds any more, but collect them in a bag like pot sherds etc. The reason fo... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/22/2012 
Entry: In preparation of the removal of Buildings 106 and 107, PTW and KTX continued cleaning them from backfill remains. We also decided to record them with 3D photography tomorrow before starting to take out walls. It is ideal that we can record the buildings ... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/24/2012 
Entry: JHB continued working on cluster 16981, following it into Space 341; it ends in the doorway between Spaces 450 and 341, though – the cluster therefore is located north and northwest of buttress F.5057. In the doorway he uncovered a dense layer of phytolit... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/26/2012 
Entry: We spent yesterday and today following the plans we made in the strategy discussion on Tuesday. PTW continued exposing buttresses F.3355 and F.3356 in Building 107/Space 462, which is a time-consuming thing as firstly a lot of soil has to be moved and... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/28/2012 
Entry: Yesterday our new teammates TET, SO, CMF, GWN and FJ arrived and today they already jumped in right after breakfast cleaning and starting excavation. EUR and JHB finished exposing walls and floor in Spaces 340 and 341 today. No floor 16977 is present i... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/29/2012 
Entry: KTX recorded the faces of walls in Space 310 (B.106) today. Wanting to remove wall F.2427, he scraped off the plaster U.17246 [in 2008, the excavator of Space 310 saw two layers of plaster on top of each other; we did not see this today and therefore used... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 7/30/2012 
Entry: SO and EUR finished taking out the compact uppermost layer of room fill in southern Building 105 (16997) until coming down to softer fill which will be taken out with a new unit number. During the fill removal, EUR uncovered the long expected southern but... click here for more... 
 

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