August 7, 2000

I began by digging 10cm in L1000 which was top soil. That was too cautious it seems to be all top soil, so I told them to dig another 10cm.

At 20cm we came upon a lighter grey soil that was harder packed with finer grain. Most likely this is just sub top soil but I changed locus anyway to L1001. I dug another 20cm down finding some large and beautiful possibly Hellenistic pot sherds in the North East corner of the trench.

Andy came by to warn us that we were digging in a heavily plowed zone, which would account for the mixed soil and the presence of modern debris.

There are two large roots at the North Baulk and North East area.

After going 20cm down L1001 we saw some soil that was a darker reddish brown and was a finer grain. I changed locus again to L1002 and decided to go down another 20cm looking for more stuff.

Unfortunately when I made this decision I didn't realize that it was so late in the day, so I just had everyone clean up the trench. All the KT#1006-1008 have been canceled. While cleaning the workers found a very small piece of jewelry with some bluish/green paint on it. I labled it a small find.

We spent the rest of the day playing hackey sack waiting for the TV crew to leave.