August 8, 2000

Archaeologists think I have too many loci, so I will redesign. We are digging L1044, which now includes most of the trench. Free loci numbers which now remain to be used: L1041, L1042, L1043. I found a watermelon seed in the Southwest, just above L1035 in the West baulk. This is the Southern most point of L1040. We dug 10cm across L1044, there were a lot of bones. We will dig another 15 cm. In the North part we seem to be happening upon a lot of bones, so we will carefully take this section and clean it. We will continue to go down on the South side.

After breakfast I dug a probe from the East into L1029 to see if the blue square is anything. We also dug L1044 down another 10cm. We start to hit pebbles on the East, but the center is still just dirt. I found a nice blade of obsidian on the South Baulk and I kt'd it as 1226.

The blue crust in L1029 is not very thick and has a lot of pebbles. It seems to continue North. It is only slightly below the level to which L1029 was cut, also the bottom of the wall. It may be a surface or the mortar between bricks. We cut it in half during the probe. No bricks yet. After the probe, we also dropped the North part of L1029 since we don't know what else to do. On the West of L1044 there seems to be another blue layer. It may be West of where the L1019 wall used to be.

The L1044 and L1029 blue sections can not as yet be connected. In the North part of L1044, there are more broken rocks and pottery. There maybe a line of rocks there, that leads Southwest from the center of the North Baulk, possibly related to the aforementioned L1044 West blue section.

We also dropped the Northwest corner, L1038 a few centimeters in order to see if there is actually a brick there.