Date: 03-Aug-97
Weather: sunny, heat haze, occasional breeze
Number of Workers: 3
Lots Open: 1502, 1503
Page Reference: 148

STRATEGY: Continue to excavate soil beneath topsoil. This soil to be excavated in two spits: 1502 and 1503. Both c. 10cm deep. The change in lot is arbitrary, as the soil is the same in both, i.e., well developed.

SUMMARY: 1502 excavated and half of 1503 excavated. Both fully developed soils with decaying rocks, calicte specks in places, calcite encrusted pottery and pebbles. Finds in 1502 include 2 bags of pot, bone, flint, Roman tile fragments (pottery includes prehistoric examples, such as an orange painted sherd), a large pot slag fragment (10cm squared) and a small round stone for grinding (c. 5cm squared). Less stoen rubble than in 1501/1500. 1503 contains pot, flint, bone (including a small rodent skull), roof tile. It became obvious that the large stone in the south section is a door stone on its side with a worked hollow in which a wooden pole attached to the door could pivot (could be a door jamb fallen over or moved from elsewhere on site). NB door jamb stone left on Tepe by Op. IV.