August 17,2000

I decided to level the rest of the trench to the bottom level of the pit 1010. ( I was planning to level L1016 with L1010 and leave the burial L1011 and the soil around the burial L1013)

We started digging from the South -Eastern corner next to the pit 1010 and we broke a skull at that area. So there is a burial under the pit and the skull was under the rock.

So we searched for other bones at the northern side of the skull but we couldn't find any. According to the bones (we found the piece of the forehead)Andy thinks that is a child. We are now screening the soil from that area and I will put the pieces from the screening to the same bone bag. It is interesting that thay placed the skull under that huge rock.

So the burial will have the locus #1017. Probably we cannot find the borders of the burial because it is the last day, so I will seperate an area for this locus arbitrarily. I will use the borders of the pit L1010 because I think that the pit and the burial are related.

After that we decided that we won't destroy any more bones at the northern side of the trench so we started digging through that direction (1016). We leveled the trench ( L1016) and cut the baulks and took the closing elevations. But may be we will go and take the bones from the burial 1011 this week if we can find enough time.