July 30, 2000

We started cleaning the trench for photos. Then we are planning to level L1009 then we will go deeper in L1013. We saw a line in L1009 (very clear) parallel to the wall (L1011) on the South side, which separates the reddish dirt from the gray. And now we are cleaning that area. And in L1012 we found more rocks. And we couldn't see the continuation of the red line so we are going 1 or 2cm more in that area. We saw a line in the North side of the trench. In the L1010 we saw a very clear line in the South-west direction.

Andy was nice enough not to kick over our piece of mud brick on our wall.

We dug L1009 down today about 15cm. We leveled it to the West side that we cut yesterday. In the Northeast corner is the red/gray separation, apparently a mud brick line to the South and parallel to the L1011 wall. We spent a lot of time trying to level L1009 but have not yet finished. In the Northeast corner of the trench I brought the East side of the rock pile (L1014), L1018, and L1010 to the same level and flat with my nice new big flat trowel. We sprayed it to look for lines, but the only line we found was in the middle North side which runs east-west.

In the Northwest we dropped L1013 right up to the baulk but not all the way across. We start to find some rocks including a crumbly colored one closer to L1012. We took a soil sample on L1010 to remove it and found harder soil beneath.