Date: 04-Aug-98
Weather: Cloudy, humid, some rain might be soon
Number of Workers: 1
Lots Open: 1800 1801 1802 1803 1804 1806
Page Reference: 301

STRATEGY: Cleaning up the trench to make it ready for photo and drawing (1:20 scale) when possible.

SUMMARY: Whole trench is cleaned with small sweeper and soft brush for photo. Additional effort is given to 1801 during the cleaning in order to collect loosely situated pottery fragments and level the very soft, brown soil. For this job only 10-12cm. Soil has been removed. After the cleaning it became convincing that the stones at this area and the plaster floor belong to a circular structure. In order to be sure, N baulk of the trench is removed and the plaster with stones lying under it exposed. The stone pavement for horizontally leveling the area had a f182 apart from the plaster f181. At the SW corner the appearance of circular structure seems severely disturbed by another feature which is f180. Area 1804 is also disturbed by some reasons and only plaster f180 & a few cobbles (possibly related with the plaster but unclear) left around it. It seems this structure disturbed the SW area of the circular structure f181 & f182. Since the nature of the soil in this trench is highly disturbed, there is no evidence to find out what are the features associated with plaster f180 & in which ways f180 had disturbed f181 & f182. With more cleaning and the removal of the N baulk trench will be prepared for photo and 1:20 drawing by tomorrow morning.