Daily Trench Journal

Area D

Trench 5

July 23, 2002

All looks well for the plan to do the baulk reduction on Saturday. The grain surface has mostly been followed to its conclusion in all directions. The only areas which need to be further followed are in the W-central, L5100 and L5117 (the area under the rock concentration L5099).

Interesting finds were plentiful today, including, from the grain surface, a pair of bone incising/perforating tools, KT 5103.36, a bead, possibly designed to twist string, KT 5103.40 and an obsidian point fragment, KT 5103.41. The horns of a bull figuring were recovered from later WNW pit L5085 (KT 5085.31).

The removal W-central rock concentration L5099 proceeded relatively uninterestingly. No unexpected finds were recovered and the area underneath the rocks simply appeared to be a heavy concentration of mudbrick collapse. The area underneath the rock concentration has been designated L5117.

The final thing worth mentioning is that we finally appear to have reached the conclusion of pit L5085. Late in the day we discovered what appears to be a multi-colored mudbrick paving or similar at the bottom of the pit. However, locus designation and excavation of this is waiting until after we have completed the baulk reduction, as there is no sense in exposing another possibly fragile and extensive context to the potential damage of that work.