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: 31184

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Name: TMK 
Team:  
Date: 8/17/2013 
Entry: This is a combined diary entry for Thursday 15 August and today. Last Thursday, APV and I began excavating two units in building 105: 18372 and 31184. I will discuss them in this order, covering what we’ve discovered this far. Unit 18372, provisiona... 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: 8/18/2013 
Entry: CMP did some more wall clarification in B.107 today. In the NW corner, she found only two wall phases on top of each other, as seen last year as well. After removing some remaining areas of fill from walls all around the building, and emptying a few roden... click here for more... 
 
Name: TMK 
Team:  
Date: 8/19/2013 
Entry: Previously in building 105: APV and I dug unit 31184 to an arbitrary level about 10-20 cm below the top levels. The soils and finds have been discussed in the unit sheet. The unit is probably a fill composed of wall erosion and waste disposal. The bric... click here for more... 
 
Name: TMK 
Team:  
Date: 8/20/2013 
Entry: First a word on today’s excavation, then some confessions and concerns. Continued excavating unit 31210 in building 105. The aim is the same as before: to get the unit down to an arbitrary level before starting sondage in the northern half of the build... click here for more... 
 
Name: TMK 
Team:  
Date: 8/21/2013 
Entry: We now know more about the mudbrick-and-slab constellation in the middle of room 105. In the morning, I worked on the brick and mortar structure (u. 18372). I sampled the structure for phytoliths (s. 1) and took 30 litres of flotation samples (s. 2) a... click here for more... 
 

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