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: 18369

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Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/18/2012 
Entry: This is a summary for work done today and also Thursday 16th August. In Building 105, EUR and CMF worked on removing the mud brick concentrations 18364 in the northeast and northwest corner of the building. In EUR’s northeast corner, the brick material... click here for more... 
 
Name: GWN 
Team:  
Date: 8/19/2012 
Entry: In the morning the clay balls were still on the same spot (18367) in the building 98:-) Fortunately no one visited the site during the night in order to get richer for couple of clay balls. So, I continued with the deciphering the rounded mystery next to ... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/19/2012 
Entry: KTX took a photo of the “section” through F.5058 created by leaving the last centimetres towards F.2424 and then removed this rest of the wall, and of F.3351. During the last days, a crack had formed naturally when the material had dried out, allowing him... click here for more... 
 
Name: GWN 
Team:  
Date: 8/20/2012 
Entry: The story with clay balls was about to be finished. I had to take each of those positioned on the floor and leave for future research the ones that are within the wall i.e. fill in the bottom of the wall. The number of the balls was bigger than I expected... 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: 8/20/2013 
Entry: Today was a day of new discoveries. In Space 448, TET and PAB scraped the bottom some more after finishing the big fill layer 31169 yesterday. After that, we saw two spots that very certainly were buttresses, even though they are still fuzzy at this le... click here for more... 
 
Name: CLC 
Team:  
Date: 8/26/2013 
Entry: 20-08-2013 I worked today first sectioning into the wall F.3333, at the same boundaries of our sondage in Sp 449. Approximately 15-20 cm of wall was removed (it was not uniformly thick, and in order to make it flat, differential removal was necessary).... click here for more... 
 

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