Daily Trench Journal

Area F

Trench 9

May 29, 2005

Brought the rest of L9043 down to the level of L9044 and renamed the whole loci 9047. I have also found a continuation of the plaster floor – L9046 – just to the west of it. Abutting pit L9045 (at the same hieght as the plaster floor), I have found traces of organic material which could have been sitting on this floor. I am now working on tracing both of these features while small picking the western third of L9047 to see if I can uncover anything else at this elevation.

I also looked closer at pit L9045, I now believe that I let my workman push down to far and on the west side we actually passed the bottom. I had not thought this earlier because the composition of the soil still seemed soft but on a closer look, it was clearly browner and not ashy as it was higher up. I also took an elevation of where we thought the bottom should have been based on the wall of the pit – this measurement lined up much more closely with the otherside of the pit in F9. The height of where we thought it should have ended was 567.5 as compared with 567.83 on the western side of the pit in F9.