July 22, 2000

We did Munsell on yesterday's loci. We are continuing for 10 cm in the quarter that we dug yesterday in the Southeast and we couldn't find too much pottery, only one or two pieces but there are many in the southeast corner on the bulk. But it doesn't seem like anything different. Yesterday there were some pottery at the same spot also. We sound some sandstone at the southwestern corner of our quarter, so we are now cleaning up, probably it is a different layer.  We munselled the sandstone piece and it is 2.5Y 5/2 Greyish brown with some black pieces in it.

I found an acorn in the middle of our 2x2 locus, 1001. We cleaned the southeast 2x2 and there are a lot of rocks in the southwest corner. This we will clean more closely. There was found during digging a very different sort of stone with silver and gold and black colored flakes in it. Then we retook our measurements from yesterday in order to use the new level. Then we started our workmen on the North side, we started with the Northeast corner and decided to cut all the way west from there. We called this all part of locus 1001. The East side is pretty much the same. The West side is hard to tell if it is the same because we cut it fast. The chunks of dried dirt are big. There are also some big rocks. We only went down about 5cm on the West and 8cm on the East. We will start to clear the Southwest corner. We are taking it a little slower to look at where the rock pile will lead us.

We think there is something different in the Southwest corner it is so loose and the color is different, we will probably open a new locus for this but until we clean and decide we will collect the pottery as a new KT#1020 in the same locus 1001. It is probably a pit. And there are some rocks around it. We will leave them because they may be related with our rock feature that we couldn't describe yet.

I am curious that we have seen about 6 roots, of large diameter, but there are no trees on this hill. All the roots were buried, perhaps sprouting those prickle bushes on the surface.

Now we have cleaned most of 1001 away to get to the similar 1002 in the North part of the trench. The action now is in the Southwest corner, where our rocks have expanded out almost circular. There seems to be a different sand texture inside the rock circle. We will measure the bottom of 1001.

We dug through the scattered rocks and they don't seem to continue, so we counted that as the same locus, 1001. That brought the trench near level and clean. Next we thought to work off another 10-15cm off the East, uphill side. We were working North to South when we found a large, fat group of broken pottery and some large bones, so we will clean. The pottery is in the middle. Then we worked from South to North. The soil close to the middle made a funny hollow sound when we hit it and it felt more damp, or soft, it is hard to tell. We left it to "dry" for tomorrow and we will tell at that point. We should also clean up the broken pot and give it a KT number.