Daily Trench Journal

Area F

Trench 9

May 19, 2005

Began the day flattening out L9029. In the NW corner we uncovered part of a chalice base which will hopefully be connected more fully. I will keep an eye on it as we go down. In the NE corner, there is a grinding stone right next to a medium sized broken pot. On closer inspection we have decided that this corner of L9029 is actually part of a large pit which explains all of the ash above L9027. If we are correct, the other side of the pit should appear in F7. I renamed this area L9030 and am excavating it further. I have taken it down to the level of L9027 and found several pieces of broken pottery, bone and ash.

In L9031, what could be a wall has appeared running N to S on t he West side of the locus with ash butting right up to it on the east side. I broke L9029 into two loci to bring half (L9032) down to the level of L9031 to see if there are any more wall features.

After taking L9032 down to L9031, we cleaned the two loci. What appeared promising in L9031 as a wall fell through. The orange color that we thought was a wall actually spans the locus. There is a difference in coloring between L9031 and 9032 though. Tomorrow, L9029 will be brought down to the same level as 9031 and 9032.