Daily Log

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July 15, 2003

A.M.

We began the morning with pick passes in all meters.  We are still in the basically sterile locus 3.  We have found about a dozen very fragmentary terracotta pieces.  We also continued cleaning the baulk walls.  We recovered a piece of bone, several pottery sherds, and about a latte box of terracotta.

By the late A.M. we had removed a total of 2/5 cassetta of terracotta and

two coarseware body fragments

three pieces of bone

P.M.

We began, as usual, with pick passes that revealed a locus change.  We shovelled and sorted the remainder of locus 3, finding an increase in both pottery and terracotta.  Once the material was removed, the trench was scraped down, as were the corners, and closing depths on locus 3 were taken:

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closing depths for locus 3

drawings with depths

Locus 3 consisted of gray, clayish soil that easily crumbled when shovelled and sorted.  It was described as distrubed galestra or galestra-like soil.  It was nearly devoil of material, porducing only approx one cassetta of terracotta and a few pieces of bulk pottery as described.

Locus 4 is darker and sandier than locus 3 and shows an immediate increase in artifactual evidence.  At the end of the afternoon, 1/5 cassetta of terracotta had been found and the following pottery:

two pithos fragments

four coaseware sherds

two creamware fragments

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one impasto rim

two bucchero fragments

one coarseware handle fragment

we ended the day by sweeping up the loose material from the trench floor and trimming back the baulk walls.