Area D Trench 6                                                                                          July9, 2002

   A day much planning. Exploration, and discussion: Oven locus 2 has become Furnace locus 2, and must be treats with great care. First, we changed our tents for white ones. So any blue material would not be hidden from sight. We then cut a 20cm `section locus` locus 7, one meter south at locus 2, running, E-W to check for any surfaces or ancient slopes. This revealed a possible surface and exposed 3 courses of the rock line locus 10, leading from the baulk at locus 2 into the west baulk. This leads us the believe locus 2 continues down to the elevation of our 2nd step. We also cleaned and did some exploratory excavation in the south chamber of Furnace locus 2, and noticed red soil coming up about 5 cm below our current surface, possibly evidence of the `fire box`. We also found slag coating the inside of the small wall at the furnace continues in a thick drip formation into the red soil, and found more slag in the south central chamber.