Journal / Summary:D-9-2005-Summary

Kenantepe 2005        Page 1

Datum: 587.95

Trench: D.9

Date: June 10, 2005

TRENCH SUMMARY FOR 2005 SEASON

With the hope to find architectural remains in D.5 and see their possible extensions in further E within the trench D.10, we reopened D.10 on May 19th. Unfortunately, architecture in this trench was lacking as in D.5 and more than the E half of the trench was representing the heavily accumulated fill over the Ubaid settlement. The line separating the Ubaid settlement form the later fill was already discovered in the last season. This line continued in NW-SE direction this year and the east side of it was always consisted of ash fill and orange color bricky soil (L.39).

There was only one feature (L.41) in this trench that its identity and nature was not understood. It was discovered towards end of last year’s work as a circle. It reappeared after cleaning and drying the trench, but our tests showed no distinction between inside the circle area and the outside of it. Only the circle line was clearly visible. We left this feature a little lower than the outside (585.80m) before we stopped working in this trench on June 4th at the depth of 585.84 meter.