C3 Daily Journal, July 22, 2002

Today we looked at the SE portion again and decided that the locus, L3079, was fill. In the small window we cut in to that locus on the W edge we could see that we had missed the surface we were aiming for by leaving us about a centimeter or so above the surface. Realizing this, we decided to take L3079 down to the level of the surface. We also decided to take the remainder of L3080 out as well as the area N of L3080 which is L3057. We are taking these to loci down so that we can get down to the surfaces that are beneath them as well as get the entire trench relatively level before we start working on the W part of the trench.

Taking a look at the entire E portion of the trench we saw that the area was without any good surfaces, only a couple of broken degraded ones, and no architecture that is associated with surfaces. Therefore we are going to dig L3070 which is the W most locus of the E portion of the trench and boarders the W part of the trench which has not been dug yet. We will go down with handpicks in 50cm horizontal increments across the entire W side of the locus. We will dig in this manner in order to see any change that might be coming up and stop in time to preserve it. If there are no good surfaces or architecture in the area we will bring down the entire E portion of the trench to the level of the highest part of the W portion of the trench.