Daily Trench Journal

Area D

Trench 4

June 30, 2007

Today I dug out the NE corner of the room with surface L4115. The walls that form the corner are L4110 and L4116. The collapse came out easily and we made it a part of the L4111 collapse locus. The wall 4110 also revealed a window and/or crawl space going into the next room. The window was 70cm wide and about 200 cm from the South baulk. The ledge shows wear and a curved edge, ass if it was used as a seat or repeatedly crossed through.

Necat continued working in 4126 and 4120. We tried to have him remove the submerged pot found in the northernmost corner of L4127, but he found the remains of a wall that we had missed (possibly just a continuation of wall (L4118) that acted as a cross wall between the pot area of 4127 and L4126. We missed a good portion of it though and we decided to revisit it if we have time.

Bradley finished the burial L4128 and worked the rest of the day in the collapse L4129, which later became L4134.

In the afternoon, I cleared off the collapsed fill on the east side of wall 4110 and found what I later recognized as wall L4135. There was a clear difference between the burnt material on wall 4110 North of this new wall and the composition of the material South of this wall. The fire was clearly contained to the room with surface L4134 and the large room with the 4115 surface.