August 5, 2000

We separated the reddish stuff in the South of L1011 and the rocks perpendicular to the L1011 is L1027, on the east of L1027 is L1028. The rocks (L1030) probably fell fro L1011 but they are a separte locus now. We think the L1020 is more reddish now so we changed it as L1032. We sprayed the floor but couldn't see anything. And there is another circular formation in the NE corner (1/4 of a circle) with loose soil in it. This is L1031.

Now we are digging L1012. We are planning to level it. We will dig L1032 for 5cm then we will search for mud-brick. I kt'd a possible loom weight of stone from L1012 in kt1145. There was a red brick-like stone found near there with a possible flat surface on one side.

There are some more rocks under L1032 so there is no mud-brick there. Probably it was a surface with all pebbles. But we took a soil sample from the surface. The surface is the rocks we are uncovering.

In the Southwest corner we are searching hard to find the mud-brick from the spot we took L1012 off. In L1032 we found a bunch of rocks. As we try to level it to the rocks, the soil is more dirty and choppy, a bit more red. It will be hard to level because it is loose. We will take L1022 down 5cm to level it to L1009. There seems to be no more rocks under the line formed between L1011 and L1021.

We are now leveling L1032 and there are more rocks under it. We think the soil is more silt. North of L1011 next to the East baulk, we found some rocks, and the sand around the rocks are darker like ash. In this layer (L1032) there are a lot of pebbles. We are cleaning the trench.

There is reddish stuff in the West side of the rocks that we found today (In the North of the wall L1011). They look like bricks.

We dropped L1031 in the Northeast corner by 10cm. There are many pebbles in that area. The rocks stretching Southeast from L1026 are disconnected with the walls on the East baulk. We are sweeping L1024/L1023 clean for a photo. Also we will clean L1031 and L1026.