Daily Log

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June 28, 1990

A.M.

Yesterday afternoon's cut to 70 cm in J was completed in J-K/79.  The soil was absolute gravel with many gray-yellow stones and similarly colored soil.  Larger stones were encountered too, especially in J/79, which lies beside huge stones in J/80 - these jut out of last year's baulk.  Some tile was found and one pithos rim, but these seem to come up around the tree stump in K/78 and may have been pushed up from a lower stratum.  Judging from the baulk, we are very close to a reddish, plaster-rich stratum.

A second cut was made that left K/78 at 60-65 cm and J/78-79 at 70-75 cm.  This cut brought us directly on top of the red-brown stratum, which occasionally cropped up, such as in the trench corner at J/78.  Around the stump, soil was brown too.  Generally, however, the soil remained the yellow-gray, rock-filled soil encountered earlier.  J/79 continued to be full of large stones, but so large as that in J/80.

When the new soil was encountered, pottery and tile were found, but not in abundance.

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The yellow-gray rocky soil produced little of anything.  The morning's work produced one large full cassetta of tile.  Plaster began to come up in the red-brown stratum, but only small quantities.  Pieces of burned wood came up as well.

P.M.

Another 10 cm cut was made in J-K/78.  At the southernmost side of meter K/78, this cut was in red-brown soil with bits of plaster and charcoal.  This stratum apparently dipped as it moves northward because it disappeared until the northern edge of J/78.  In between, the old yellow-gray rocky soil prevailed.  One piece of bronze came up in K/78 in the red-brown soil.  Pottery and tile also came up, but nothing too noteworthy.

Work stopped early because of rain.