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July 21, 2003

The first pick-pass uncovered an area of yellower soil between 83 and 84 S and west of 192.60 E.  We need to work that area to see if it extends.  It may the top fo the white soil layer that has been exposed in T28 N (2002) and T28 S.  Also of note from this morning is that the stump is gone.  We chopped it out and sifted through the lower portion of its pedastal as Locus 6 .  By the end of the morning, we had made a complete deep pick-pass, but cleaning has taken longer because of the prospect of reaching bottom and the discovery of 10 Finds.

We began the afternoon with a less vigorous pick-pass, again because of our proximity to the white soil layer.  Again, we have left the yellow semi-circle alone, as it was slightly lower already.  The rest of the afternoon was devoted to cleaning up.  By the end of the day, we had brushed most of the trench, as well as T28 N (2002), clean.  This revealed the white soil layer through most of T28 N (2003) - that had been Locus 6 , all of the western spur and much of the southern spur.

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Pottery Count:  213 total sherds, all from Locus 6 .  18 coarse ware undiagnostic, 3 coarse ware base sherds (2 of which join), 4 coarse ware handle fragments, 12 bucchero undiagnostic sherds, 1 bucchero handle, 3 bucchero rim sherds, 1 bucchero ridged rim sherd, 14 orange ware undiagnostic sherds, 2 orange ware rims, 141 undiagnostic impasto sherds, 2 impasto base fragments, 1 impasto handle sherd, 7 impasto rims, 1 buccheroid base, and 3 buccheroid rim sherds.

Also found were 4 bone pieces including a jaw fragment with 2 teeth in place, 3 lumps of bronze (= Finds #1 , #5 , and #9 ), a ridged bronze file (= Find #7 ), parts of at least one rocchetto (= Finds #3 and #8 ), 2 iron nails (= Finds #6 and #10 ), a fragment of cavetto from a frieze plaque (= Find #2 ), a carbonized seed (= Find #4 ), a piece of plaster with reed impressions (= Find #11 ), and a polyhedral worked stone (= Find #12 ).

20030102

20030102

• Find #2
• Cavetto fragment
• Found at 194.88 E x 84.62 S x 22.69 m

20030111

20030111

• Find #3
• Rocchetto fragments (now joined)
• Found between 194 - 195.35 E and 84.10 - 85.40 S at c. 22.79 m

20030112

20030112

• Find #6
• Iron nail
• Found between 193.15 - 193.50 E, 83.10-83.60 S, and 23.49-22.99 m

20030127

20030127

• Find #7
• Bronze file segment
• Found between 193.15 - 193.50 E, 83.10 - 83.60 S, and 23.49 - 22.99 m

20030097

20030097

• Find #8
• Rocchetto fragment
• Found between 194.00 - 195.35 E x 84.10 - 85.40 S x c. 22.74 m

20030110

20030110

• Find #10
• Iron nail
• Found between 192.60 - 193.30 E x 83.50 - 84.20 S at c. 22.73 m

20030096

20030096

• Find #12
• Polyhedral worked stone
• Found between 84.00 - 85.40 S x 193 - 195 E at c. 22.72 m