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: 17272

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Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/5/2012 
Entry: Building 105 starts to get very complicated. CMF and FKJ continued excavation in its northern part. CMF found a layer of fill in the NW corner that was very different from its surrounding (darker, looser, with very many finds) and that she determined to b... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/6/2012 
Entry: GWN flattened the remains of buttress F.5053/5054 and then spent some time cleaning the surrounding floor 16977 of this buttress and also F.3326 from rain damage and several days of trampling, after which both features were photographed in dry and in wet ... click here for more... 
 
Name: CMF 
Team:  
Date: 8/6/2012 
Entry: So, what’s new in the girls’ trench? Today we finished to remove the first 10 cm of u. 17272 in the whole area. It consisted only of room fill with a lot of collapsed material (mud bricks, plaster lumps). There were still the same black patches I mentione... click here for more... 
 
Name: FKJ 
Team:  
Date: 8/5/2012 
Entry: After a relaxing weekend I stayed at the dig house to help in the botanical laboratory, yesterday. I mostly supervised the workmen at the flotation machines and entered new data to the database. Today, we started to excavate a new unit, still in the same... click here for more... 
 
Name: FKJ 
Team:  
Date: 8/7/2012 
Entry: In the newly opened unit 17280 we removed about 20 cm in depth of room fill. Near feature 3365 some big potsherds were uncovered. There were fewer sherds than yesterday. Compared to the preceding layer of room fill (u. 17272) the potsherds we found were l... click here for more... 
 

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