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Trench D6 Daily Journal August 15, 2002
Drew only today!
L29
We continued down in three stages, finding continued collapse, several very large mudbricks and much slag in the Southern parts of this locus but no real soil change or variation, excepting an area of darker soil in which we found very many tiny snail shells, very delicate and apparently undamaged. We took a sample of this material (KT 177) but no photo. Despite these efforts the collapse and debri continue and we did not reach the bottom of the furnace, unless of course we have already passed it, as the absence of ash and burned soil and the shells might indicate. It’s a possibility that we are already below the firebox, and that any ash is lost to topsoil erosion. However, the fact that we are still finding slag very similar to that on the upper parts of the furnace leads me to believe we are still within the limits of it’s ancient size.
L6
We continued excavation in the area East of the wall in L6 finding first large mudbricks (bright orange) and debri with some small mixed pieces of slag and then at around 590.02 to a dark hard soil without debri. Between 2 and 4 cm below this we came to what appears to be a new surface, and so at last we have come to the bottom of one of our furnaces. We found slag (thin and hard to see) on both of the interior walls (the continuation of the East side of the wall L6 and the West side of wall L5) leading down to this layer of empty soil. We wanted to explore and document this further but along came a!
Whirlwind (L20)
As we were preparing to record this a whirlwind came through, throwing our tents down around us and the furnace, causing a medium amount of damage to the top of L20. We picked up the debri and sorted out it’s original location before recording and bagging it. This filled the latter part of our workday.
The summary of damage is as follows:
The wall directly North of L28 lost a few bricks and we were not able to reconstruct so we photoed the pieces out of context, noting location in the KTS..
One wall south of this (N of L27) received similar damage (same tent pole) with good success at reconstruction and documentation.
The crosspiece of L25 and the large slag drip underneath and to the North (KT14) was lost, but we were able to reconstruct and document.
Descriptive Attribute | Value(s) |
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Date | 2002-08-15 |
Year | 2002 |
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
Drew McGaraghan. (2012) "D-6-2002-08-15 from Asia/Turkey/Kenan Tepe/Area D/Trench 6/Locus 4". In Kenan Tepe. Bradley Parker, Peter Cobb (Ed). Released: 2012-03-28. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/documents/0ba68498-10fb-4a24-099e-036c46b3783d> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2988742v
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