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.
 
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Name: Tuukka Kaikkonen 
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Date: 8/4/2013 
Entry: My first day of excavating West Mound building 105 with Till. We’re clearing a buttress (F. 5063) out of the way to figure out the building sequence of the house: was the buttress built to support the walls, or were the walls added after the buttress? A l... click here for more... 
 
Name: Till 
Team:  
Date: 8/4/2013 
Entry: The cleaning we started yesterday was finished before breakfast, pictures of the room 105 were taken and after that we were finally able to start excavating. The section we will be working on for the next weeks will cut through the wall of building 105 in... click here for more... 
 
Name: Till 
Team:  
Date: 8/6/2013 
Entry: A lot of progress has been made today, the buttress is almost on the level of the adjacent wall to the south. On this level I will have the last chance to expose the outline of a brick in this feature, which I already started today. Below this brick there... click here for more... 
 
Name: Till 
Team:  
Date: 8/7/2013 
Entry: On the third try I managed to expose the outlines of a brick, although they were still not absolutely clear to me. Just like the others before, this brick connected to the one directly above within the center of the buttress despite the very thick mortar ... click here for more... 
 
Name: TSK 
Team:  
Date: 8/17/2013 
Entry: The three-feature section is done and as we feared, the plaster layers do not seem to continue. Although not perfectly even, the profiles F.2424/F.3303 F.3303/F.5063 and F.5063/F.2424 show the layers of mudbrick and mortar rather clearly. We might leave t... click here for more... 
 

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