August 14, 2000

Andy and Bradley came by early this morning after we scraped L 2010 flat. We decided that the area was not well defined enough to be mud brick yet, so we are holding off on opening L 2012. Instead, we are going to take L 2010 down another 5 cm to see if we are able to start seeing mudbrick lines.

After removing 5 cm and scraping the area super flat, it looks less likely that there is a wall in this area. Bradley came by and noticed that the lines in the balk are starting to look more like sedimentary layers than brick: there are long continuous horizontal lines, but no vertical ones except for animal holes. In addition, the lines that were once faintly visible on the surface of L 2010 have now pretty much disappeared.

Now the plan is to flatten L 2011 and then to bring L 2010 down level with it. We will then decide what to do with the locus situation on the western half of the trench. In flattening L 2011, we continued to have the same areas of very soft soil that we had yesterday. Towards the middle of the locus there were again small areas of different colored soil. After we finished level the main part of L 2011, we started work on the pile of rocks along the N balk. There were quite a few stones in this area, but they appeared to be just tumble, so we kept them as L 2011. We did however, give the area its own KT numbers.

When L 2011 was completely leveled, we started working on bringing L 2010 down. However, my workmen were starting to drag at this point, and in the time left we were only able to get half of L 2010 chopped. At some point while we were digging this section, Andy came by and said that he thought there still might be a wall in this area, but it might be lower down.

Tomorrow is my last day, so we will try and get a little deeper, but it is not looking likely that we will find anything. There are some stones starting to come up in the southern half of L 2011 however.