Daily Log

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July 16, 1971

An addition of two men made for a greater working area.  Two new cuts were started.

Cut 5- Grids DE-56 were started.  A facing was left for the western wall. Stratum A stones were quickly taken down.  Stratum AB is virtually nonexistent.  Stratum B is well defined by a particularly heavy concentration of rotted brush which makes it soft and black. In grid E6 just below the "pavement" of brush a bronze fragment was found.  Another was found in E5 in stratum B.  About 10 tile fragments.

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• Bronze ring-like fragment
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Cut 6- Grids A (BC)-12 were begun.  BC-12 will be done first to test for a wall structure in grids AB.  A dike will be kept until the complete grid C East-West profile is taken.

Stratum A was taken down and Stratum B reached through the small space disallows a clear view of the strata.  A box labelled strip B was collected of sherds found 0.40-0.50 m below the surface in a soil of high carbon content. Rich pockets of this soil are found demarking the stratum.  About 10 tile fragments.

Cut 4

Stratum B was followed.  It is difficult to define except in profile. In this area the soil of strata AB and C is the

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same and "C" serves primarily as a distinction between that soil lying under B.  In stratum B at H5 a rochetto was recovered as well as sherds and another rochetto.

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• Rochetto
• Grid H5
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• Rochetto
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Stratum C

Upon entering Stratum C in grid G6 an akroterion fragment was found.

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• Akroterion fragment
• Grid G6
• Fragment from lower left corner added in 1972 from T R 13, T 4-6 (B)
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Cut 5: Simultaneously in Stratum B at D5 another akroterion fragment was uncovered.

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• End of Akroterion fragment
• Grid D5
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Cut 3: Left when black of Stratum D began to appear.