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Daily Trench Journal
Area D
Trench 4
June 19, 2007
The top layer of the collapse was large solid burnt bricks of the red, yellow, and green colors previously described. This top layer was from collapsed wall. Underneath of the large mud brick was a layer of roofing material of thin burned packed mud with reed material stuck to it. This shows that the fire caused the roof to cave in and then the walls collapsed on top of it.
The current layer we are in is right below / in the roof collapse coming onto the surface. There are scattered components of architecture spread around from the roof. Smashed pottery and sherds are pressed up against a surface type material that is collapsed at various angles. We are not yet sure of this being the floor or not, but it could be a surface smashed down into a cell and hence the sloping angles?
The bricks in the collapse layer were also turning up white chaffy stuff in between which means that either the bricks had inclusions or straw / stuff in between the bricks.
Today we also made a distinction between the top ashy layer of collapse (L4111) and the red brick burned with organic material (L4112) that we are thinking is above a surface. This locus got somewhat mixed in with the 4111 locus however, as we only made the decision to make this distinction today.
We came down on a white layer that we initially though was a floor and switched to locus L4113. However, we got sherds both over and under the layer so we are now fairly certain that it was not a floor, but possibly plaster from the wall.
From one of the architectural pieces we found, we measured the diameter of that specific roof beam to be about 6cm.
| Descriptive Attribute | Value(s) |
|---|---|
| Date | 2007-06-19 |
| Year | 2007 |
| Has note | The purpose of the daily journal was to record the activities taking place in a trench each day. This included which loci were excavated, how and why loci were excavated and the ongoing impressions of the relationships among loci. It should be noted that journals record the actions, impressions and ideas of trench supervisors during the excavations. They are not, therefore, the final interpretations or syntheses of the emerging data. |
Suggested Citation
Catherine P. Foster, Jon Vidar. (2012) "D-4-2007-06-19 from Asia/Turkey/Kenan Tepe/Area D/Trench 4/Locus 4104". In Kenan Tepe. Bradley Parker, Peter Cobb (Ed). Released: 2012-03-28. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/documents/0b1c243e-81f9-4c44-a153-add3bc753151> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k25h7hb0p
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