July 13, 2004

Area F, Trench 1

C. Painter

Major emphasis was placed today in closing L1116, the suprasurface fill located along the south baulk. Surface L1117 was successfully followed east where the last meter slopes at about a 35 degree angle until it ends abruptly 60cm from the east baulk. At this point L1119, a brown (7.5YR 4/4) fine clay/silt fill, was opened in the southeast corner of the trench since this fill is not suprasurface and thus different from L1116.

A baulk cleaning and cutting locus (L1118) was also opened and closed in order to better determine the exact breadth span of the surface L1117. L1118 was a light gray (5YR 7/1) coarse to fine angular clay containing large 30cm stones with smaller 5-10cm pebbles and stones running one meter along the south-southeast baulk.

In suprasurface fill L1116 every fourth bucket was sieved through a ¼" screen. Significant finds included a worked stone grinder or possible hammer (KT20), two fragments of worked stone needles (KT22 and KT25), and another shell bead (KT23) similar to ones found previously in this locus. Two carbon and soil samples were also taken.

In articulating L1117 I dug a little too deep and discovered a second superimposed surface below L1117. Thus surface 1117 will be removed down to this surface and a new locus will be created. Because this new surface is running directly below a level of fill that does not seem to be associated with L1117 and therefore not L1116, a new locus was created here, L1120, a light gray (7.5YR 7/1) fine to slightly coarse compacted silt.