August 16, 2000

We start by taking out the section hump from L1037. The blue pebbles were over the L1043 cobbles but under the big L1039 stones. As we peel back L1037 section hump, there is a lot of that dark ashy silt underneath.

There was a pit in the middle of L1048, 0.5 from SB, 0.8m from EB, with a 0.22 diameter and 0.12 depth. I took some soil from it and a lot of worn pot sherds. This we will call the South pit as it is in the South part of this locus.

In L1047 in the Northwest is another similar pit I will call North pit. We dug it. 1.15m from SB, 1.1 from EB is its center. It has 0.24m diameter and 0.12m deep.

Then we dug L1051 ash pit out. Also we begun to level North from L1047 to find extent of bricks. First we dug North towards L1051/L1050. Then we dug westward towards the corner of L1043.

We also took a soil sample from L1051, the ashy pit. As we scrap, the pit became long in a North-south direction. There is less crumbly dirt on the same sides, I am trying to find the full extent. All the dirt in this area tends to have dark silty dirt.

After drawing the baulk we dug the North part of the probe in L1045 up to the North baulk. Then we also cut straight west from L1045 through the bricks of L1046 up to the West baulk.