Daily Log

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Friday, July 3, 2015

AM

Work began with a pick pass of Locus 2 , beginning in the northern part of the locus and moving south, but avoiding the cluster of stones in the NW corner of the trench. Soil is yellowish brown and claylike and contains few small rocks, unlike the previous locus. Soil is hand-sorted directly into buckets in the trench. Very few materials were recovered, including tile and pottery. There is a somewhat denser concentration of tile and pottery in the eastern meters of the trench, just south of the Locus 3 rock feature. Additionally, in the central meters of the trench, roughly between 87 and 88E, there is a new, lighter yellow soil that has begun to appear. Soil remains darker in the southern and eastern meters of the trench.

Once soil from the first pick pass was cleaned up and sorted, the two remaining stumps in the trench were removed. While cleaning up the debris from removing the stumps and the soil loosened by this, a piece of vitrified terracotta (Find #1) was discovered in the eastern half of the trench, in the area where the most materials

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have been found.

With all the stumps removed, there appeared to be a new, light-colored, yellowish soil in the center of the trench, while to the north soil is darker and slightly more red, while to the south and east, soil is darker brown. Therefore, we are scraping down the floor of the trench with handpicks and trowels, in order to create a level surface on which soil changes may be seen easily.

Special Finds:

\xb7 Find #1

\xb7 Locus 2

\xb7 88.79E/35.65S

\xb7 27.02m A.E.

\xb7 Vitrified terracotta

\xb7 Drawing

PM

Work continued with using handpicks and trowels to even out the floor of the trench, in order to better see differences in soils. Throughout approximately \xbe of the trench, a new, lighter yellowish soil was revealed. This soil feels very loose. In contrast, in the SW quarter of the trench, soil is darker brown and claylike. Soil is hand-sorted directly into buckets in the trench. no materials have been recovered from the lighter, yellowish soil and only a handful of

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tile fragments were found in the dark brown soil. As we leveled the trench floor, it seemed as if the light yellowish soil in the middle of the trench was looser than the same colored soil in the surrounding areas. This may be due to roots, but we will have to determine in the loose area is clearly delineated and has a shape. Closing elevations for the day were taken.

Closing elevations:

\xb7 NW corner: 27.07m A.E.

\xb7 88.54E/34S: 27.04m A.E.

\xb7 89E/35.48S: 26.98m A.E.

\xb7 SE corner: 26.94m A.E.

\xb7 SW corner: 26.91m A.E.

Locus 2 :

\xb7 Tile: \xbc bowl

\xb7 Pottery: 39 sherds

\xb7 Bone: 2 fragments

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