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Trench D6 daily Journal       August 8, 2002

We wanted to discover the extent (depth) of furnace L20 and it’s relationship with surfaces L17 and L36, and so cut a ~20cm wide section locus (38) through surface L17and fill L36, stopping at L37. L17 continues unchanged (~8cm thick, same composition of small sherds and stones) and abuts a curved bottom wall piece of L20. It appears L20 is "bathtub shaped" and is completely built with custom shaped bricks. These bricks may either be pre fired or pieces of clay that were fired in situ. It does not appear there is any relationship between L20 and the surface L37.

In this area we also cleaned and articulated the western portion of L17 and cleaned the baulk underneath wall L10, looking for clues to the relationship between the two. L17 runs up to L10, we still have to determine whether it runs underneath, although I find this unlikely as it does not continue to the west of L10.

We also continued down in L29 and after articulating and documenting the mubrick collapse we found there came to a set (~4cm thick)of extremely high fired collapse (bright orange) and then a space devoid of collapse. We currently believe this marks the bottom of the inside of L20.

In L6 we continued to remove and document the mudbrick collapse, but did not have any breakthroughs in our understanding of this region. Our best theory so far is that this was an earlier oven cut by wall L16, although its apparent fragility and the material above it (debri, etc) do not really support this. However, there was no evidence of heat damage to the stones of L16 despite the highly ashy soil found just to their East, supporting the belief the wall is later. We still believe this feature is earlier than L20.

In L8 (West of L20) we removed the large apparent mudbrick, finding dense homogenous material but not quite the nature of a mudbrick. Under about 15cm of this we came down on a collection of large (~10 cm) rocks and sherds that extend from the back of L20. We have not yet quantified the relationship of this area with its surrounding. Stay tuned.

In the south ½ of D6 we continued to push down in L36, trying to find the boundaries of surface L37. Unfortunately we had a few extra workers and lost track for a bit and lost some of L36 (perhaps ½ to 1 meter). This is unfortunate as we had a small find of a piece of iron ( a squarish column, 2x5 cm) in this area (L36 KT14) and a piece of slag (KT15). Both of these were found at about the same level as surface L37, and I believe its safe to associate these with this surface.

Lastly, we removed the line of rocks L34 without much ado. This are was just below the surface and we did not find any associated features.

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Date 2002-08-08
Year 2002
Has note The purpose of the daily journal was to record the activities taking place in a trench each day. This included which loci were excavated, how and why loci were excavated and the ongoing impressions of the relationships among loci. It should be noted that journals record the actions, impressions and ideas of trench supervisors during the excavations. They are not, therefore, the final interpretations or syntheses of the emerging data.
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Suggested Citation

Drew McGaraghan. (2012) "D-6-2002-08-08 from Asia/Turkey/Kenan Tepe/Area D/Trench 6/Locus 4". In Kenan Tepe. Bradley Parker, Peter Cobb (Ed). Released: 2012-03-28. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/documents/7b66d2c7-3699-4d61-4690-505dcde8ac6c> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2z033r6f

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