Trench D6 Daily Journal     August 05, 2002

Today we began in L15 (the rock garden in the SW) removing the 1st layer of large stones. We saved these stones to the side in case of further need. Under these we found a ~5cm thick layer of dense smaller rocks and pottery, which we took a picture of before removing. Under this we found that surface L17 continued as expected.

Next we began to remove surface L17. Athough we did not complete removal today, what we removed was consistently a ~8 cm deep mixture of small (under 4cm) stones and pottery. We noticed that the matrix of this surface was soft to the East but became very hard as we moved west. In this we found a carbon sample, and took a soil sample for flotation.

While we were working in the South (L15, 17) we continued to push down in L29, finding rich red bricks and soil (10YR 6/8 reddish yellow). Removing this allowed us to see that furnace/line/wall L5 continues all the way to L14, and blocks the entire East of L20. This "wall" contains slag and also presents stop for the west side of L35 (the strange conglomerate heap, which we examined today and found to be very soft- not a candidate for drainage from L20). Today we also remeasured our B dayplan and corrected the errors (esp. in the west, L30, 31,35) and expanded L29 to the East.

Finally of note, we removed the strange rock with the hole in it (L4.96, turned out to be a mortar) and a large well used grinding stone (L4.96).s