August 16, 2001

Today is supposed to be the last day digging so I've spent a lot of time measuring to get a really accurate last day trench plan.

I removed the flat lying sherds of L 9020. We started to clean L 9011, the installation that cutes L 9020. A lot of small pottery fragments started to come out and more stone appeared. I screened the dirt, but it only revealed a few smaller pottery pieces. I put these in KT 9139. I decided to uncover the installation completely and photograph it since it could be dead by next year. In order to do this we took a 66 cm wide x 57 cm long rectangle out of L 9020 around the area.

After removing the area around the locus it showed a stone structure that could be some sort of a potstand. It looks like some of the structures found in F8, although those seemed to be of a more delicate nature. There were some large sherds in this matrix that almost looked like part of the base. I gave these a new bag, KT 9141. The rocks and sherds were removed.

Underneath the area I came upon an area of brown dirt with a white substance on it. It almost looks like a layer of salt was put on something. It has that characteristic of salt water receding and leaving a layer of salt on something. It assigned it a new locus number L 9022, but I did not dig it. I also did not reassign new locus numbers to the area of L 9020 that were split by the cut to take down the area around L 9011 and expose it.

I also took out the bricky thing in the middle of pit L 9019.