Daily Log

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Wednesday, July 14, 1993

Work continued with pick and shovel in T 31-33 and P/Q 34-36.  At 46cm (west) and 55cm (east) below the surface of the baulk the brown crumbly clayey soil ended, revealing a lighter colored soil.  Before excavating this new layer, baulk trim was carried out.

In P/Q 34-36 picking and shovelling proceeded normally for the first meter.  Picking in P/Q 35 soon revealed stones (boulders) which seem to run in an east/west direction.  At this point work slowed down and proceeded only with trowels.  A bronze nail (or possibly slag) was recovered from P/Q 35 very close to the north edge of this cut.  Also recovered was a pithos rim and

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possible body sherds.  Small chunks of plaster (less than 0.5cm in diameter) became more frequent in P/Q 36 and 35.  Also, a piece of carbonized wood approximately 1.5x1.5cm was recovered.

When excavation ended for the day, trowel work in P/Q 35 had revealed several boulders (small to medium size) which seem to be part of the stone copping rather than a wall because they appear to be radomly scattered over the 1m width of the trench rather than laid out uniformly.  P/Q 34 remains to be excavated.

The current level of P/Q 37 is 68cm below the datum point.  In P/Q 40 the level is 71cm below the datum point.

Work in P/Q 36-35 recovered one full litre carton of pottery and one third of a cassetta of tile.  Two large (approx. 10x15cm) fragments

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of pantile were recovered (and put on the tile pile).  One undecorated flange fragment of approximately 10x15cm was also recovered but thrown out.

The excavation of T31-33 recovered only a handful of pottery and tile fragments, as did the baulk trim.

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19930066

• Find #1
• P/Q 35
• 70cm deep
• Bronze Nail
  • drawing
  • photo

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19930098

• Find #4
• P/Q 35
• 69cm deep
• 2 fragments of Gorgon Hair
  • drawing
  • photo