Daily Trench Journal

Area F, Trench 22

June 1, 2005

M. Baldi

We took the trench down to about 60 centimeters below top level. As mentioned we are not collecting as yet but we have located the cobblestone surface and have begun detail work on the cobbles. We want to get the trench to about the same level as that of F 20 and I think that by the end of the day we were fairly close to that!. I will have to check the elevations taken today to see where we are. It seemed from the earlier excavation of

F 1 and F 4 that the surface continues through this trench and that it takes a pronounced dip by the time it comes out on F 4, additionally, on F 4 the surface appears composed of several courses of stone laid on top of each other. One of the things I am wondering now is the reason for this elevation and thickness differences, Bradley hypothesize that erosion would have brought the stone down to rest there, I on the other hand believe that this being the end of the tepe would have had additional reinforcement at the end as if to signify the end of the road, perhaps as a safety wall for small children, or as part of a defensive wall. We could also be looking at two different surfaces at this point and excavating slower will yield the answers to these inquiries.