Ares D Trench 4

July 18, 2002

We started to the excavation by taking elevations and then we began to articulate from the south side of the trench. As I have mentioned it yesterday my aim for today is to get the west side of the trench more or less to the same level with the south side of the trench. The south side of the trench is the surface that has the locus number as 4065 (we have covered this surface to protect the ceramics and the tiny bones on it). We worked on three locia at the same time; 4066, 4074 and 4075, these are on the west of the trench (the south quarter of the west side). Then we began to excavate on the north side of the trench. The locia here are 4067, 4069 and 4071.

During our excavation on the south side of the trench we have excavated the locia for 3 and some times for 5cm. But we mostly have done articulation. Now I am able to observe that the one row of rock that seems to be border (they abut the surface 4065, no remark for them on the pit’s place but then we can easily see that the rocks are at the bottom of D3’s west baulk, and they might be going all the way long to D7).

So, this means that the trench is ready for the spider shots on the 20th of July, the only thing that we need to do is to clean the whole trench on that morning and to take the whole dirt on the surface out.