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: 31224

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Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/23/2013 
Entry: This is for 22.8. TET set off to make the long eastern profile in Space 448 presentable and in doing so found another construction feature, in the place where we suspected we might find the northern buttress. Its mud brick and mortar lines are visible ... click here for more... 
 
Name: TMK 
Team:  
Date: 8/23/2013 
Entry: On 22 August I proceeded with a sondage in building 105, with the aim of finding a floor or at least further activity surfaces. The sondage is delineated by the eastern and southern buttresses, which are used as controls for the depth and architecture of ... click here for more... 
 
Name: JMR 
Team:  
Date: 8/24/2013 
Entry: GWN and CLC continued investigating feature and “burnt layer” in the phase under B.98 which now has the working title Building 125! CLC found a corner, so there really is a wall behind the buttress F.3387, of which we do not see the eastern limit. GWN fol... click here for more... 
 
Name: TMK 
Team:  
Date: 8/24/2013 
Entry: Continued with the sondage in b. 105, excavating three units: 31224, 31238 and 31239. Unit 31224: I straightened the sections, paying special attention to those of the eastern and southern buttresses (f. 3353 and 3365, respectively). The sections clear... click here for more... 
 
Name: TMK 
Team:  
Date: 8/25/2013 
Entry: Final day of excavation! Boring news is that I didn’t expose any new areas in my sondage. There might have been time for a little extension, but as my progress was slow, and b. 105 pretty cramped, the plan was abandoned. And the chances of finding buttres... click here for more... 
 
Name: TMK 
Team:  
Date: 8/27/2013 
Entry: Quick update re: groundstones x2 (u. 31224) and x1 (u. 31283). Groundstone x2 (u. 31224) has numerous specks of possible pigment attached onto its underside. For this reason, I gathered the soil underneath the stone for further analysis (s. 6, same uni... click here for more... 
 

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