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: 18303

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Name: Jana Rogasch 
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Date: 8/8/2009 
Entry: Back on the West Mound. We arrived last week late Sunday night and started working in the trench on Tuesday. The three days were spent with cleaning (unit 18300) and the first bit of excavating in Space 343 (Unit 18301) . Today I started excavating in S... click here for more... 
 
Name: Jana Rogasch 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2009 
Entry: I excavated another spit of 5cm in Sp 310 today (Unit 18303). Just as yesterday, huge amounts of large animal bones clustered in the NW corner of the space and along its W wall (F. 5058). As today also a lot of large pot sherds appeared, some of them stic... click here for more... 
 
Name: TEB 
Team:  
Date: 8/10/2009 
Entry: SRW and Ümriye were excavating room fill layer 18314 (space 343), taking it back to the new step on easting 691. This extends north and the remainder will be excavated once PTW finalises recording his suspected pit cut 18306. EMM and SO completed excavat... click here for more... 
 
Name: Jana Rogasch 
Team:  
Date: 8/10/2009 
Entry: I cleaned, photographed and drew Space 310 today. After having removed the first spit of roomfill (18303) whose NW corner contained a lot of animal bones, four clusters of large pot sherds appeared in the NW corner (18320), along the N wall (18319), al... click here for more... 
 
Name: Jana Rogasch 
Team:  
Date: 8/11/2009 
Entry: I started excavating another spit of 10cm in the room fill of Sp 310 today (Unit 18318). I started in the S and middle of the room where there are no clusters of artefacts. The fill is still heterogeneous, contains lumps of yellowish, greyish and orange (... click here for more... 
 

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