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: 16999

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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: 7/31/2012 
Entry: Another exciting day in Trench 5. A not so nice new thing was rain damage due to the thunderstorm last night. I happens that the most leaking parts of the tent are over B.98. This one time we have a nice white plaster floor, and now we have little rain po... click here for more... 
 
Name: KTX 
Team:  
Date: 8/2/2012 
Entry: The past day have involved the removal of more brick material belonging to B.106. The material of wall F.2427 (Mud-brick U.13797 & U.17254, Mortar U.13755, Plug Plaster U.17255) was completely removed and sampled. The transitional-plastering layer (U.1699... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/4/2012 
Entry: Exciting day in B.106. KTX started the day wanting to take down the southern half of buttress F.3301 down to the preparation plaster layer 16999. While doing so, we had to face again the many plaster layers (so far summarised as 16932) in the corner of F.... click here for more... 
 
Name: KTX 
Team:  
Date: 8/20/2012 
Entry: Work in B.106 this week was spent doing minor excavations to fully expose the layer of mud bricks in walls F.5058 and F.3351. Work in the corner of these walls proved that the previous idea that smaller individually sized bricks were used to construct the... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/20/2012 
Entry: CMF and EUR brushed their Building 105 for its first 3D-Scan. After this, CMF started on removing wall F.3349, which turned out to be quite disturbed, and uncovered nicely the tops of walls F.3352 and F.3350, starting from the northern part moving south. ... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/21/2012 
Entry: GWN worked further in his sondage. After taking out floor 18376, we saw two rectangles in the cut: a red rectangle in the west, and a dark grey rectangle in the east. Both seemed to be building material; they were rather homogeneous and we have seen both ... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/22/2012 
Entry: Last day of excavation. CMF and EUR did some small scale work on their collapse layer in sondage 18370, exposing a cluster of plaster fragments. The rest of this layer will be fore next year. KTX removed the rest of buttress F.3301, exposing more of... click here for more... 
 
Name: KTX 
Team:  
Date: 8/20/2012 
Entry: The last days of this seasons excavations were spent excavating the small sounding into wall F.5058 as well as the plastered areas on the small block left standing south of the corner between wall F.5058 and buttress F.3301. Here, half of the plastered su... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/11/2013 
Entry: Finally excavating again. All that sitting in the office is too much. In B.107, we continued what we started. CMP drew the wall succession F.3373-3304-2426, with the fill between F.3373 and F.3304 being really clear, but F.3373 itself rather fuzzy towa... click here for more... 
 

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