August 6, 2000

We are digging the pits L1023/L1024. And the soil in the pit L1024 is really hard although it is soft in L1023. We screened and took soil samples from both of them. Peter thinks that he sees a line in the baulk. "A mud-brick line", he started dreaming about mud-brick (!) We found reddish stuff with white pieces under both pits (same material as in L1010). We found a square shaped rock and we put that into the lithics bag. Around the rocks in L1033, the soil is dark and silty. Probably it contians ash. It seems only to be on top of the flat square rocks.

We cleaned out some more of L1031 to level it with L1032. We are looking for a connection between L1026 and L1036. There are a lot of pebbles in the Northeast corner, but they don't seem to form a surface.

We dug L1032 East of L1034 between L1033 and L1036. We found a piece of pottery with ash on the inside and a burned surface. I also poked around in L1033 at the loose, dark silt.

Elvan started to articulate rocks in L1011 heading East. She took pottery off of the wall. There seems to be a straight line of rocks crossing from L1026 to L1036. L1031 is on the North side, L1032 on the South.

L1031 is turning up some very good lithics. We think it is a separate pit. L1026 seems to have a box and a possible flat surface for work. L1036 could be the same. I screened and took a soil sample from L1031 and screened L1032.

A lot of small pieces are coming up in the Northeast corner. We will probably change L1032 out. We are dropping the Northwest corner 10cm in L1025. We took some basalt from L1019 which was hanging out over L1025 and kt'd 1181. There was also a nice rim we put into the pottery bag. We are articulating L1036 and we will continue around to try to get a photo.