July 31, 2000

We have the kid leveling L1009 South of the wall, I gave him a general pottery bag Kt1100, and he found some bone Kt1097. It hasn't been cleaned so we don't see anything there yet, but we are looking for bricks.

In the Northwest corner we started cleaning away from the wall L1012 North through L1013 and we found a line extending Northeast from the other wall. It is a nice line of stones.

In L1009 we found a different sort of shell on the North edge near L1011 wall, it is Kt1104.

Then we decided to remove the rock pile L1014, we find a lot of broken pottery and small-medium rocks. We had to open kt1102 to remove the top stuff, and kt1101 to remove a nice base on top of the pile. We also opened kt1105 for the middle to hold the rest of the pottery but changed to a bucket because there was so much. Elvan found a small green rock in the pile.

There is hard stuff in L1010 above what looks to be the full extent of our new wall. We are leveling L1014. I also removed the pot smash in the corner of the walls in L1012, gave it kt1098.

What's interesting is that all the rocks are strewn about near the intersection of the two rock lines. Perhaps it is a collapse.

We are not sure about L1012, it might be an architectural feature or a fill. We cut through L1014, the rock pile, there was not much underneath. The sections we saw on the South and West sides we had cut before were as low as it went.

We cut down L1018 heading Northeast. The soil is chunky, with not too many pottery pieces. As we reached the baulk we hit more rocks. We also found a funny yellow rock in the middle. It is some sort of rock made of a bunch of little rocks. It didn't look like a brick.

In L1012 we now have rocks all over the West baulk in a semi-organized position. As usual there is pottery smashed in between the rocks and a really nice base.

In the middle of the West baulk, West of the main intersection we dug L1012 down a bit and the soil seems to have more small rocks. Also in L1018, there beings to be rocks of not much size, but not dirt. On the East baulk there may be more.

We cut through L1015, the rocks in the middle of the East baulk. We also leveled off L1018 in the corner. The most interesting thing was we found a huge rock in the middle of L1010, in the middle of the North baulk in line with the new wall. We will level everything to search for a connection.

L1010 is red with white specks. That was different than L1015 which was dry with brownish chunks. The difference was distinct. Now Drew made an interesting observation, he said L1010 seemed to look like Fertilizer. It definitely seemed to smell and feel a little like that. It was a bit soft and moist (relatively speaking).

There were also a lot of larger rocks within L1010. Possibly they are part of the wall, possibly thrown into the "pit" as the base of our red L1010.