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 the year: 2009

Page 1 of 9 (Total Records: 83)
Name: Richard May 
Team:  
Date: 6/12/2009 
Entry: Well hello there people. Another year, another Efes by my side and another late night prepping servers. It's the end of a long day but here is my customary first diary entry of the year. I'm knackered so this is short and sweey (unlike me). There sh... click here for more... 
 
Name: Michael House 
Team:  
Date: 6/18/2009 
Entry: The start of the study season, and I can already feel the weight gain Noooooooooooo. Started work converting old matricies into the catal house style, need to get up the mound and give the 4040 a good clean. We may help Rodney in the south shelter hehe... click here for more... 
 
Name: Julie Cassidy 
Team:  
Date: 6/20/2009 
Entry: For the Finds Lab the study season is the ideal period to finalise data cleaning, crate repackaging and crate inventory lists to ensure that all material can be easily located for the lab teams to do their research. The material archive needs to be easily... click here for more... 
 
Name: Jana Rogasch 
Team:  
Date: 8/8/2009 
Entry: Back on the West Mound. We arrived last week late Sunday night and started working in the trench on Tuesday. The three days were spent with cleaning (unit 18300) and the first bit of excavating in Space 343 (Unit 18301) . Today I started excavating in S... click here for more... 
 
Name: Jana Rogasch 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2009 
Entry: I excavated another spit of 5cm in Sp 310 today (Unit 18303). Just as yesterday, huge amounts of large animal bones clustered in the NW corner of the space and along its W wall (F. 5058). As today also a lot of large pot sherds appeared, some of them stic... click here for more... 
 
Name: TEB 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2009 
Entry: The total station was set up today for its use in Trench 5. Two new steps were created along the western section of T5 along eastings 690 and 691. SO was excavating a suspected pit fill (18307) and its cut (18308) in space 340 that respects F2428 in t... click here for more... 
 
Name: OMV 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2009 
Entry: Today SRW and I continued to remove concentrations of thick chalky fill from space 342. Having recorded a lens of an ashy grey material on the previous day (unit 18310) we were able to define this further. As a result we believed that unit 18310 represent... click here for more... 
 
Name: PTW 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2009 
Entry: We've just begun your first full week of excavation on the West mound. After a few days of cleaning and preparation and photographs, the real digging has finally started. Today I was working on untit 18312, a pit fill which turned out to be more of a se... click here for more... 
 
Name: EMM 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2009 
Entry: For the last two days I have been working in space 341, which, after cleaning turned out to consist of two different parts, that now have the Unit number 18 313. The south-eastern part of the space is characterised by loose soil, containing less finds t... click here for more... 
 
Name: SRW 
Team:  
Date: 8/9/2009 
Entry: Continued in space 342 with OMV, removing a curious grey, ashy fill (18310) that had been discerned yesterday along the eastern edge of (arbitrary layer) fill 18309. Particular caution was exercised due to the presence above the north-western area of 1831... click here for more... 
 

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