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Daily Trench Journal

Area F

Trench 21

June 8, 2005

J. Nijhowne

I began the day by completing a more detailed plan view of the wall locus 1. Then we photographed the wall as we still weren’t sure where the base of the wall was located. We proceeded with removing the remainder of the matrix between the large stones with trowels. Between two large conglomerate rocks at an elevation of 569.97 meters, we found a layer of pebbles. The spot is marked on Plan A, June 8, 2005. The pebbles are clearly part of the wall construction. We decided to remove the remainder of the large stones in the wall as we still didn’t know exactly where its base was. We removed all the large stones in the wall (except the one in the baulk which we had to pedestal). Underneath the large stones we found some metal which may possibly be slag KT10.

Underneath we found a layer of very compact clay. But in the eastern section, the pebble layer continued (see Plan B). We removed the clay and pebbles/coarse gravel down to the level of surface locus 4 with small picks and trowels. But the pebbles/coarse gravel kept going below the level of the floor. It is clear that the floor locus 4 is associated with the wall locus 1. It most definitely does not go under the wall. I didn’t want to dig a hole trying to remove all the pebbles so I stopped excavating the base of the wall, locus 1 and removed locus 4 with small picks and trowels. Very few artifacts were found in the floor. Then we finished removing the pebble/gravel layer. It ended approximately 3 cm below the floor locus 4.

After the removal of the floor and wall, we were back to a level trench with no discernible features. We ended the day with another large pick pass which removed part of locus 5. Locus 5 is another arbitrary locus that covers the entire trench.

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Date 2005-06-08
Year 2005
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

Jeanne Nijhowne. (2012) "F-21-2005-06-08 from Asia/Turkey/Kenan Tepe/Area F/Trench 21/Locus 1". In Kenan Tepe. Bradley Parker, Peter Cobb (Ed). Released: 2012-03-28. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/documents/8537cb37-ac40-439e-145b-2afbb9fec9be> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k25q4x34c

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