Descriptive Attribute	Value(s)
Designator	Sounding Level
General remarks	An arbitrary level that ended when we hit a new type of soil. Changed locus to 1009 when the soil became ashy and we found lots of pottery as well as a figurine. When we found the figurine we screened the dirt around it looking for the other half, which was broken in antiquity, but we did not find it. The figurine actually belongs to locus 1009 but was found at the bottom of 1008 which pushed into the top of the ashy soil layer.
Strat below	1007
Strat above	1009
Top depth center	572.19
Bottom depth center	571.83
Dimension length	1.0
Dimension width	1.0
Start date	2001-08-19
End date	2001-08-20
Color	10 YR 3/3 dark brown; at base is 7.5YR dark gray
Texture	clay loam but changed to ash and silt
Composition	clay then ash
Description remarks	some tiny pebbles less than 1cm
Tentative Date	Uncertain / Mixed
Has note	Contexts excavated in trenches were recorded using the "locus system." A locus is any discrete three-dimensional entity excavated in a trench. The key to the locus system is the recognition that a locus is any one thing. Differences in soil composition or texture are therefore as important as, for example, the difference between a pit and a wall. If two entities were distinct, they were considered separate loci and were therefore assigned separate locus numbers. It should also be noted that every context excavated in a trench was given a locus number and thus the trench itself is made up completely of excavated loci.