Daily Trench Journal

Area D

Trench 4

June 12, 2007

When removing the pottery group L4102, we discovered a thin, ephemeral surface of what appears to be mud brick slump about 1-2cm thick. The surface was almost impossible to see while going down and as a result, we missed parts of it in L4098. Thus, L4098 consists of fill above L4103 as well as some parts below it. L4101 and L4102 are both clusters resting on top of the surface L4103. The locus L4101 consisted of a pot holder made of sherds and packed into mud.

Upon further digging in L4101, we determined the locus to actually have been a pit that we pedestaled do to the pot fragment pot holder. The pit consisted almost entirely of pottery sherds with only a few non worked rocks and no bone. The pot holder itself was an orange perfectly rounded bowl of sherds packed into mud. The orange color made us believe that the pit had been heated and reheated several times.