August 1, 2000

We start today by separating all the loci. Then we saw that the level surface between the wall of L1019 and L1011 seemed to be different along the lines of where L1014 was. On the North it was more dirt and soft reddish. On the South it seemed more blocky and crumbly like the topsoil. So North is L1020, South L1016. We will clear and level both. We will screen a bucket from each since here may be a surface associated with our walls. North is Kt1117 screen, south is kt1118 screen.

Elvan started to dig the Southeast corner of L1021 from L1009. She wants to articulate the corner which seems to be here at the intersection. She found a clam shell which I gave Kt1120. We haven't hit upon any more large rocks in the clearing of that surface.

We decided to level everything but we felt bad about our mud-brick so we decided to leave it there. Don't worry! We put a tag on it so it won't be mixed with anything: "Lovely mud-brick." We found one more white rock (we found one in the Southeast corner a few days ago) in L1016.

We don't have our mud-brick anymore and Peter is cutting L1017 from the West. Then we will clean the trench. We found some more rocks under L1017.

We found some reddish stuff that might be pieces of an oven and it might be related with the rimmed pot. And maybe related with all pot smashes there. I will put that piece in a Kt bag. We found another piece of obsidian. We usually find that on both sides of the wall L1011. The rocks that we found under L1017 might be near an oven because we found some reddish stuff with some possible ash. Also we found a beautiful cover of a pot there.

After clearing the surface of L1016 and L1020 we found nothing, so we will call it L1020 all across the Northeast corner between walls L1019 and L1011. Except in the center where we are digging down 10cm to find if there are anymore rocks, this we call L1022.

We are digging 1020 for 15cm. There is an interesting piece of pottery in the middle of the rocks that we found under L1017. It looks like the top of something with a little square piece to hold. And there may be 2 pit formations in the West side of the trench.