Daily Log

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July 8, 1981

A.M.

T-26 Summary: The 90 cm cut was extended through meters C/77-79.  Tile: 3.  Pottery: 3.

T-23 Summary: The 60 cm cut was completed over the trench meters C/12-11.  a new cut was begun in meters A/11-12.  Tile: 1.  Pottery: 1/2.

In T-26, the approx. 90 cm cut was continued to the NE into meters C/77-79.  The soil remained gray-brown until meters D-C/78-79, where the burn layer appeared (red-orange light soil with carbon).  Also a burn layer was evident at approx. 90 cm in E/79.  A group of pottery fragments to a courseware vessel were found in meters D/77-78.  These include base, belly, and rim, and may join to form a profile.  The soil was gone through in the whellbarrow at a medium pace.  Clods were broken in the trench with the pick.

In T-23, meter C/12 and part of C/11 were taken to 60 cm.  A new cut of approx. 25 cm was made in A/11 and A/12.  See this afternoon for details.

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19790293

• Find #4
• T-23 C/12
• 60 cm
• Ivory dowel
  • drawing
  • photo

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19810207

• Find #11
• T-23 C/12
• 60 cm
• Bronze pin head
  • drawing
  • photo

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19810050

• Find #12
• T-26 D/79
• 90 cm
• Bronze nail head
  • drawing
  • photo

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P.M.

T-26 Summary: The 90 cm cut was extended through meters.  Tile: 2.  Pottery: 2.

No work was done this afternoon in T-23 though the following should be noted from this morning:  the cut into meters A/11-12 was approx. 20-25 cm in depth to bring the total floor level at approx. 80-85 cm.  There was a change in soil -- the soil between approx. 60-70 cm continued to be burn layer soil while beneath this at approx. 70-85 cm was no longer light and orange but a dark gray with little pottery.

A very large pithos rim was found at approx. 85 cm in A/11.  It should be noted that while pithos fragments have been found at this depth and at other depths in T-23, they are not being saved but are discarded with tile.  This morning's cut in A/11-12 was with pick and shovel and looking through the wheelbarrow more quickly, as we are now doing in T-26.  This increase in speed does not appear to be with an acoompanying loss of thoroughness.

In T-26, work proceeded as this morning.  The red burn layer continues to be present only in meters C/78-79 while gray-brown soil is present

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in meter C/77 at this 60-90 cm cut.  This could be due to the fact that the present hill slope was not existent in antiquity.  This cut, as all cuts, is 90 cm from both the NW and NE walls of the trench to the floor level. Illustration.

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19810096

• Find #31
• T-26 C/79
• 90 cm
• Glass fragment, blue, with saw cut
• drawing
• photo

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19810055

• Find #37
• T-26 C/77
• 90 cm
• Rocchetto fragment
• drawing
• photo