Area D Trench 10

June 22, 2005

S. Torpil

Our day started by taking elevations for the entire trench. Then we began to articulate L32, which was thought to be pit yesterday, but today after articulating it turned out to be clear that L32 is a chewed up wall. Most parts of the wall are sitting in trench D8, but I am going to mark it in my dayplan. Besides articulating and revealing L32 we have taken the entire trench for 10 cm down (the entire trench except for the pits L5, L31, and the chewed up wall L32).

After breakfast we began to sweep the trench, than we were planning to close up the trench for this season. But during our sweeping process just to the south of L13 I was able to observe the line of another pit. But when I articulated it, I was able to observe that it was just a series of animal holes.

But all in all, when I was trying to sweep and to clean the trench I have observed lines of a possible mud-brick wall running from the northwest to the south east corner of the trench. To make sure if the lines are continuing in trench D8 I have checked it out with Emily Ogle who was excavating D8. According to her the lines are coming up to her trench, but for me it is too early to say that, because D8 is not down at the same level with D10 yet. When Dr. Bradley Parker came to check the trenches, we asked what is idea would be, and he said that he was not able to see the lines in trench D8 yet.

All in all, this means that D10 will be closed tomorrow, because first I need to make clear where the lines of the mud-brick wall L33 is ending. Today the closing elevations were taken from D6, and the datum for D6 is 590.01 and the instrument height was 1.22.