| Displaying Diary Entries for the year: 2011 |
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| Name: | JMR |
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| Date: | 7/17/2011 |
| Entry: | First day of West Mound Trench 5 excavations in 2011! While the workmen continued to take out the sandbags from the trench, we started extending the trench towards west and south, between 0.3 to 1m in each direction (topsoil removed as U.15345). The topso... click here for more... |
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| Name: | JMR |
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| Date: | 7/18/2011 |
| Entry: | We finished removing the top soil (15345) today, brushed and fotographed the trench extension afterwards. Already, archaeological contexts start appearing. Over Sp.342, directly on the trench section, a cluster of human bones (F.3340) was found, excavated... click here for more... |
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| Name: | PFB |
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| Date: | 7/18/2011 |
| Entry: | We have four main objectives this field season:
1. Finding the Northern, Western and Southern walls of at least three more Early Chalcolithic (EC) buildings and understanding the architecture of the buildings (e.g. doors, floors, benches, second store... click here for more... |
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| Name: | JFB |
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| Date: | 7/19/2011 |
| Entry: | Today I continuted to work on unit 15349 with DLG in the northwest corner extension of the trench. It was difficult to get going on our area, as there were many people needing and using the 2 sieves that we had set up. I ended up moving to the southwest c... click here for more... |
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| Name: | JMR |
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| Date: | 7/19/2011 |
| Entry: | We are moving pleasingly fast in the trench extension of Trench 5. The only limiting factor to the speed of the excavation is the soil sieving, so we are currently working on three sieves.
JHB and RHB finished U.15351 over Space 454. They went down to th... click here for more... |
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| Name: | HLS |
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| Date: | 7/19/2011 |
| Entry: | Today was the third day of excavation this season and we have continued to remove large amounts of soil from the extended area of Trench 5. I was working on Unit 15350 with 3 others. Work has been held up by the lack of sieves, originally only the one, bu... click here for more... |
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| Name: | RHB |
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| Date: | 7/19/2011 |
| Entry: | My first diary entry of the season! Starting to make some real progress as we finished excavating the arbitrary layer, U.15351 with JHB and we can now see the top of a wall complete with mortar and also a darker area of soil which may be a pit. I spent mo... click here for more... |
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| Name: | DE |
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| Date: | 7/20/2011 |
| Entry: | Started excavating in B.77, where Mike left off last season. Have a lot to deal with in the building, but hope to get it finished by the end of this season.
Started by removing (19265), the last fragment of ‘Mike’s cupboard’ F6050. This sealed a series o... click here for more... |
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| Name: | JMR |
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| Date: | 7/20/2011 |
| Entry: | DLG and PTW finished U.15349, which differs from the other topsoil layers on roughly the same level (15350, 15351) because it contains building materials such as dark grey brick, plaster, lime, burnt red brick and lumps of pale yellow clay. Most of these ... click here for more... |
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| Name: | JFB |
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| Date: | 7/23/2011 |
| Entry: | I continued to work on skeleton 15346 today, as on 21/7/2011 another layer of bones were found deep to where the thorax and some upper limb bones were located. This layer ended up being in situ with a typical Byzantine/Roman burial. The bones that were pr... click here for more... |
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