KENAN TEPE

Area F

Trench 15

July 28, 2002

Our efforts on F15 this morning are rewarded as we located a continuation to the cobble surface and at the same elevation as locus 6 in the 1 by 9 meter part of the trench. At this point it appears that between 30 to 40 percent of the 2 by 2 meter extension have small cobbles and it can be easily ascertained as one surface and continuing in a Southeast direction from locus 6. This new surface as in locus 6 is made up of smaller cobbles tightly packed down. The cobbles appear to have a little bit of a slope up as they go East and South. I will maintain the same locus number for this surface as locus 6, as it is highly likely that they are contemporaneous.

Additionally, we also located a few more cobbles in the very Northwest corner of the extension that are obviously part of the locus 2 formation. As before it looks like there are about 2 or 3 courses or levels of distinct laying of rocks, but this is still not enough of an area to easily determine what this was. We would need a trench to the North to make a truer more definite call on what this cobbles are doing stacked together. The locus 2 nomenclature will be kept for this locus.