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: NMR 
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Date: 8/17/2013 
Entry: Today I first removed the burnt orange layer 31181. It was often mixed with some patches of ashes and about 0,5cm thick at the section. Under it was layer 31174, which was continuous from the bottom of the slope until the eastern "circles". Parts of 31174... 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: NMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/18/2013 
Entry: Today I continued excavating the room fill 31199, continuing what had already been done yesterday in the eastern part by TET. I found some big pottery sherds, two ground stone, a giant rib, two worked bone, and a kind of weird pinkish-orange earth spot t... 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: NMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/19/2013 
Entry: Today I finally removed all the plaster of S454! As complementary information about the floor structure north of the section, I found out that on the slope, the layers between 31142 and 31174 thin out towards north, and that 31174 also disappears about ha... 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: NMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/20/2013 
Entry: Today I first flattened the fill around the horns discovered yesterday to see if there are traces of a pit cut: this doesn’t seem to be the case. As I previously said, the earth consistency of the fill is very irregular and heterogeneous, but most of the ... 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: DSE 
Team:  
Date: 8/21/2013 
Entry: Like yesterday I have been working on unit 31207. After revealing some of the wall plaster, and recording four x finds, I changed my focus temporally on the neighbor unit 31199. Due to the fact that the connection between space 310 and 454 is still not cl... click here for more... 
 
Name: NMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/21/2013 
Entry: Today I went on excavating room fill 31199. Among the nice finds were three small articulated bones, possibly for dating, a groundstone with pigments, a pottery lid and something that might be remnants of a pot-stand with orange earth in it. I progressed ... click here for more... 
 

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