Trench D6 daily Journal       July 29, 2002

We began today with cleaning and shooting in the points fro the plan photograph taken on the 27th.. We then set to work on L5, and found that the crumby white line continued down another ~25cm and revealed itself as a slag covered "wall" (all slag is on the western side). It is very fragile, however, and does not seem to have much supporting structure. Part of it was destroyed by an errant hand in the afternoon.

Articulation and debri removal in the northern part of L14 revealed large amounts of slag (~3 kilos worth). This area appears to be only jumbled debri, with no apparent structure or pattern to the slag/mud brick collapse. This slag may either be from L14 or L20 (more likely).

We had some extra help, so began our 3rd step. The topsoil here contained a lot of pottery and revealed a group of stones in the north and another to the south, which we will define later. This necessitated a refiguring of our dayplan to the actual dimensions of our trench (Our N baulk is 4.30 m and our South Baulk is 4.10m, both previously shown as 5m), All future dayplans show the correct dimensions. All previous distances were marked from the North West corner.

We continued down in L28 about 7cm and finally came across a change, finding a jumbled "surface" of the yellow mud brick we have found elsewhere (L6, and chambers 25 and 27). We also came down in L29 just east of 28, and articulated a new pile of mud brick debri (large pieces, but no slag).

Finally, we opened L33, which is the line of rocks in the south of L17/L4.