Daily Log

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July 7, 1981

Plan p. 60

Trenchmaster: C.L. Lyons

• Cassette Tiles = 3 1/2
• Boxes pottery = 7

Work continues from yesterday both in grids beta 15 proceeding north, and in alpha 15 where we remove a strip of soil c. 35 cm. in depth and 80 cm. wide.  The strip is adjacent to the previously dug western portion of T-25.  The soil here is a hard dark yellow-brown with many roots and rocks, and overlies a paler yellowish dense soil.  The dense yellow soil is apparent at the southern part of the trench near the stone wall, where it occurs first because of the slope of the hill.  Accordingly we have left a raised step of earth 2 x 1.20 m., 10 cm. in ht. in the SW corner of the trench so as not to remove yellowish soil together with the darker upper soil.  In the SE corner the yellow woil does not occur, but rather a spreadin gof the rocky brown soil which is visible in the scarp.  Along the stone wall, a protective 20 cm. baulk if left.

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In beta 15, the yellow-brown soil produces little pottery and few tiles.  To the north, however, in alpha-zeta 15, the soil is now a darker drown and contains large amounts tile (1 large cassetta in an area of 1 1/4 sq. m.) and much pottery (3 boxes).  We excavate now completely in Z-Y 15, in dark brown rocky soil.  There is a concentration of tiles in this corner of the trench.  The large stump is removed.  A small fall of pan tile fragments is cleared and removed, directly west of the stump.  Once the stump is removed, we complete Y-15 to the north scarp - tiles continue in this grid, but there is less pottery here than immediately to the south.  Because the ground is uneven and slightly higher along the north side where the stump was removed, we take a shllow 1 m. wide pass along this end of the trench.  The soil here is a dense light brown, but not the yellowish soil found near the wall.  The depth now at the north end of the trench is 75 cm (W) - 90 cm (E).

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19810041

• Find #1
• Z-Y 15
• Depth of 45 cm.
• Banquet Frieze Plaque Fragment
  • Drawing
  • Photo