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: 18377

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Name: GWN 
Team:  
Date: 8/21/2012 
Entry: The small probe next to southern wall of building 98 (U.18367) it seems to be more interesting than it can be expected by its size. I continued to excavate bellow the second floor (18377) and new situation appeared. The layer bellow was divided into brown... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/8/2013 
Entry: This is a diary for the 6th and 7th August. Currently we are on a 3-day Bayram excavation break, there is no work being done in the trench on the 8th, 9th (Friday anyway) and 10th August. TET and DAB started removing room fill layer 31127 in Space 310.... 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... 
 
Name: GWN 
Team:  
Date: 8/17/2013 
Entry: Today was the closing process of the unit 18377, the layer under the floors in building 98, but also the starting of new unit bellow it, numbered as 31196. The closing of 18377 confirmed a diverse soil structure than the floors above, as well different ... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/17/2013 
Entry: this is a diary for Thursday 15th August GWN removed parts of the dark grey layer 18377 under the floors in B.98, coming down to a more reddish-brown layer. He had a few nice finds and a nearly whole crushed pot 31191 in this layer. JMK proceeds at ... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/17/2013 
Entry: CMP worked further on clarifying walls in B.107 – SW corner by removing fill 31168. It is now clear that the wall under F.2426 in this corner has a slightly different outline/size and reaches further into the room than F.2426 (ca. 15cm). It has a very irr... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/19/2013 
Entry: CMP is working further on construction features in B.107. She cut the potential posthole 31197 and at the same time what seems to have been a protruding older wall under F.2426 and after a bit of excavation turns out to have been fill (with not many inclu... click here for more... 
 
Name: CLC 
Team:  
Date: 8/26/2013 
Entry: 11-08-2013 Today we began removing the second floor (18376). After delineating six small units in the south east quadrant of building 98, ASO and I started removing the floor by trowel. I began in 31137, stressed at first as we had no unit book to name... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/26/2013 
Entry: This is a dairy for 25th August – the last excavation day in Trench 5 for this season – and forever. DSE in Space 310 removed the marl lumps he uncovered in removing layer 31232 and during removal confirmed that the marl did not form constructed featur... click here for more... 
 

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