Trench D6 daily Journal      July 24 2002

Our main purpose today was to find the extent of surface L17. To that end we pushed out Southward, uncovering from 0 to 15 cm of topsoil to get to it. It appears to have a steady slope to the south, and it’s entirety is covered in small pebbles and pottery. We checked the baulk in D4 for its continuation, and noticed its thickness (about 4 cm) and verified that L30 is in fact equal to L17. L15 (the rock assemblage in the South) seems to rise a bit from the surface L17, being level with it at the North end but a few cm above at the South.

In the north end of our trench we removed the pottery on L19 and pushed down 10 cm, finding lots of flecks of carbon as well as a larger piece (Kts 5 and 6). We then pushed down 10 cm in L11, first cutting a small section to look for mud brick lines (the soil here is Very hard). We did not see any, and continued to push down throughout, again finding carbon flecks (KTs 23 and 27). After the whole are was cleaned, we closed loci 11 and 19, combining the area beneath them to make L32.

We also excavated 4 cm in L29, articulating more mudbrick debri but finding nothing exceptional. Again, we sampled all soil from this area.