KENAN TEPE

Area F

Trench 15

July 13, 2002

We will dig in F15 today after missing work one day due to the lack of workers. The plan is to start today by pressing down 0.10 to 0.15 meters and reevaluate what our progress is up to now. After this I will change the locus #.

We have had workers coming and going today so it has been difficult to keep a trained person working on the trench. I am having to divide workers amongst 3 trenches in order to have the better couple of workers I have to do the more delicate work.

In F15 we decided to go down another 0.10 to 0.15 meters. We found that the soil is still fairly soft and easy for picking with either the large or the small hand picks. On the Northernmost meter of the trench we began uncovering some large cobblestones (approximately 0.10 to 0.20 meters in length), it appears that we have about 7 of these at about the same height but are not found in any specific order or arrangement. These layout and size of these stones reminds me somewhat of the stones found in F14 not far to the Northeast, we believe that one to be a burial. We may have to dig a bit North and East of the stones before we can ascertain its true dimensions and purpose. The rest of the trench does not exhibit much at all at this point, but I will take the change in soil coloration to change the locus to # 3. By the way the rocks on the North end were given locus # 2 measuring at this point 1 by 1 meter.