Daily Trench Journal

Area F, Trench 20

June 13, 2005

M. Baldi

The east baulk was cleaned and cut giving us a good look at the ash layer about 0.30 meters below the top surface. The red bricky material extends through most of this wall with a light color section (perhaps signifying a wall) on the very southeast corner. I think I have noted elsewhere that this is being left over for now to be looked at as we take the trench down. I have given this area Locus # 6.

There are 2 possible walls on the center and south half of the trench and as I have not worked on these I have not given them a locus number yet.

There is a small area between these 2 possible walls that contain about 7 bricks that appear to be standing on their side, at this point they don’t appear to be associated with anything.

To the west of the westernmost wall like feature, is an area of small pebble as of yet undetermined as to what it is. I would guess that rain runoff carried this material to rest against the wall.

On the east end of the trench we will down to the ash layer and look at the section from there. The original plan was to big pick a small area off of the east end but by the end of the day we managed to lower this over a greater area than planned.

Obviously a job for tomorrow will be to define the different features on the trench and to assigned locus numbers to those that don’t have them.