Daily Trench Journal

Area F

Trench 1

July 16, 2002

Well, today was a day of some progress. We started the day by spraying the trench down and looking for more walls. We found two bricks in the far SE corner of the trench, almost in the very corner. These bricks unfortunately didn’t appear to connect at any point with the other wall locus near it, L1069. These two bricks were given the L1076. We will have to see in the coming days if this is a wall structure or if it is only a small brick structure unrelated to any wall.

Digging wise we got a lot of work done, although the only things we have to show for it are some pottery and bone bags and obsidian fragments. In a large area of L1071 we went down about 10 cm. This was the south half of L1071, which is basically a quarter of the trench, the SW quadrant. The soil here appeared to be similar to the rest of 1071. At times it appears to be a hard chunky locus, but looking at the soil doesn’t reveal any pattern or outline of any bricks that would indicate that we shouldn’t blast through this area.

We also dug down in L1074, the area that is in the N half of the trench, which is to the N of the pit-like area L1075 and to the W of the wall-like structure 1073. The soil of this locus appeared to have some more ash lenses in it than L1071, which was the original reason for splitting up those loci. Other than that it appeared to be pretty hard and things like that, but no real rhyme or reason to the mudbrick like material.

That was all for today. No small finds and no interesting finds or insights from our digging.