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: 4710

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Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/28/1999 
Entry: Continue to chug on down through the deposits. It is very weird to be working here and just be basically removing a sequence of layers in an effectively arbitrary area, it feels almost like being back in Britain in some respects. The third spit of stabli... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/26/1999 
Entry: Numbered area under building 18 as space 181. Assigned number (4709) to stray finds which pop out of section and I can’t tell the context but must pre-date level X. Excavated the features cutting (4710). At the west end was a big pit that isn’t bottomed... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 6/24/1999 
Entry: End of another week and only one more to go until the half way point of the season. The start of this week definitely dragged and we didn’t seem to be making any progress but today most of the canvas for the shelter went up and I started digging material ... click here for more... 
 
Name: Craig Cessford 
Team: Çatal 
Date: 7/18/1999 
Entry: Have spent the last day and a half removing two neonate basket burials F.543 and F.544. These must have been cut during the lifespan of building 23 but because of the location of one of Wendys samples and the removal of composite layers for speed we don’t... click here for more... 
 

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