July 25, 2000

We have only a rise in the Southeast corner- where we took the pot smashes from yesterday. That is L1005. There was a little reddish dirt when we scrapped on the top just west of the nice rimmed pot. We will flatten 1005 and clean the entire flat trench to look for some change. Where we cleared 1005 on the North side of the current rise (middle of the East side), we have some pot smashes all level, and level with the carbon sample. We removed the carbon sample from L1006, Kt1045. And it's elevation is 92.40. in the L1006 there are some pots, mortar, pestle and there are also some rocks in the western side of these. It may be a surface. We will call it Elvan's Kitchen. We will level the SE corner and we will check if there is pottery under that part. In the SE side we found some more pieces of the nice rimmed pot that we took out yesterday (KT1042,L1004). We saw a little white plaster but it doesn't look like a line. And we are digging the NW quarter of the trench (15-20cm).

We have started digging the Northwest corner again, we first dropped 10cm and then another 10. We need to level the whole West (downhill side) and then clean it.

We have almost brought the Southeast side down to level. That means 1005 will soon disappear.

The Northwest corner is 1007. The only thing we have removed so far is the carbon sample. We have found the nice bottom of the nice rimmed pot a little Southwest of the previous piece. We also found another piece Northeast of it. We continue to level the Southeast. Also we are continuing South on the West side to level it all the way across.

We found another piece of sandstone as we found in the rock garden in the SW side of the trench.

We continue, we have to take a lot of dirt out of the West side. There doesn't seem to be much, but there has been some more of those white flakes. Perhaps it is more of what we see in 1005. We are now sweeping the East side of the trench. With that white material, and pot smash and some rocks. We need a photo!