Aug 8, 2000

Locus 1001   Today was kind of slow day. Anyway, we strated out by scraping and brushing the surface of the 1002 (end of 1001). when we were clearing, I found two posible pits, one at the Southest corner of the locus (south-central part of the trench) and another smaller pit at the North side, abuts to west balk. At this point I assigned a new locus (I had an idea to change the locus from yesterday..)   

Locus 1002 These pits had darker soil and loosely compacted (crumble). Also, soil was more sandy (fine sand). The hard compacted area is white and silt. Basically, about the same type of soil variation as in Area A trench 1, and possibly other areas. The pit was about 1 m to 1.5 m. Since this locus is still close to the surface, I decided not to make a new loci for these pits. However, I gave different KT numbers for the artifacts. (KT1033 KT1034 KT1035 KT1036). The pit were farly shallow, about 10 cm deep. Bottom of the pit was same as other compacted area. We took a photo after excavating the pits. I think these were just a deep area and disturbed zone. Now, all the soil in this locus looks all the same, except for the wall that sticking out from the west balk. I decided to take the locus down to the finishing level of the locus 1000 at the east side. we start bashing the soil from the south-side. Ihsan found some large rocks near the possible wall. I have not cleaned the area well, so I have to wait for tomorrow, but the rocks seems to be just a collapse. we did not find any large rocks on the East-side (locus 1000). About KT 1039, this was kind of wired find. It looks like a brick. But it could be a piece of pottery? It is kind of square in shape but curves up at the edge. Also, surface seem to be grinded down. It could be a pallet? It actually reminds me of the incense burner from Oman that was discovered in Oman. I don't know what it could be.

I'm not sure why today was unproductive day. Workers were complaining about the not having the tent, and we took about an hour or so to take a picture, and some other unknown factors. Maybe I got used to bashing 1 m a day for last two days, so I'm just feeling this way.