Daily Journal

Area D

Trench 8

July 11, 1983

The floor is still not fully uncovered. I am having the guys bring down the soil in L10 and L11 3cm to make it easier to find. There is a rock pile in L12 which could be a feature. Lynn had mentioned yesterday that similar things had been found in D4. Bradley said he thought it was crap because it is so close to topsoil. As a compromise I had the guys pedestal it while continuing to dig L12. L14, the wall, has an unclear west edge. There are two possible lines. The floor abuts the outermost line, I dug up part of this looking for the floor to touch the cleaner inside line but that was not the case. The floor also appears to stop right at the edge of L11 (Northern edge of L11) this means that the pottery from L11 might not be context for the floor because it was not directly on top of it. But it is also still possible that the floor might continue and we haven’t found it yet. In cleaning the northern part of the trench for photos of L9 and L14 it looks like we found another wall south of L9, this could explain why it stops. With all the new things that are being revealed in this trench I asked Bradley if it was alright if I spent the rest of the day catching up on and refining my locus sheets and my day plan. I started my day plan over (discarding tracing from yesterday’s plan) and re-measured everything. While I was doing this Ahmet was cleaning a bare section in the middle of the floor where I hadn’t been able to find the floor. Bradley said that if there wasn’t floor there he wanted it taken out, as Ahmet was doing this he found the floor, it was about 1 cm deeper then the things directly next to it but seems to slant in from the south. This means that all the pictures I took earlier do not have the full floor since this section needs to be cleaned first. While Ahmet was doing this and while I was getting the level set up Ismil was clearing the ignored south west corner of the trench with a brush and uncovered more mud brick. Because this was done so close to the end I did not even assign it a locus number I simply too an elevation for it and will deal with it tomorrow.