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: 31196

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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: 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: GWN 
Team:  
Date: 8/18/2013 
Entry: The work on the unit 31196 continued with the dynamic tempo. The large area was opened in the space 449 which gives first indication for the situation bellow the building 98. Besides the usual inclusions and soil consistency the new level appeared which d... 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: GWN 
Team:  
Date: 8/19/2013 
Entry: Today was the last day of excavating huge unit 31196, probably the largest of my units in this season with the removal of nearly 700 liters of soil. As it in the previous day, the digging was mainly concentrated on the bottom part where the archaeological... 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... 
 

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