Thursday, June 23, 1994

A.M.

Completed cut in Y-Z/16-17, removing about 10 cm.-105-115 cm. The soil continued to be yellowish brown throughout.  Ver little material was recovered, 12-15 pieces of tile and five pottery and 1 bone fragment.  Finds #5 painted creamware and #7 incised grayware rim came from this area.

Began a cut in Y-Z/13, 120-130 cm., moving east.  Completed cut through Y-Z/14.  The soil in this eare was mainly yellowish brown.  However the soil in Z/13 and about 50 cm. of Z/14, up to a grouping of three rocks was dark brown with plaster and carbon inclusions.*  Another cut was begun in Y-Z/18 moving west 115-125 cm. deep.  This area is higher than the east and of the trench due to a gradual rise to th east in the old 1981 trench floor surface.  The soil continued to be yellowish brown. 6-8 pieces of pottery were found, plus #9 Find incised impasto, and about 12 pieces of cover and pan tile and several bits of terracotta.

*In meters Y-Z/13-14 1/4 cassetta of tile and plaster, several with reed impressions, were recovered, along with 3-1/2 latte boxes of bone, teeth, and pottery-mostly coarseware with several small fragments of bucchero-much of the pottery showed signs of burning.

19940101

19940101

• Find #5
• Y/16-17 meterline
• 100-115 cm.
• barrow find
• painted creamware

19940021

19940021

• Find #8
• Y/14
• 118 cm.
• cut antler