July 24, 2001

Today we dug in the west-most part of L3018, expanding the N end borders of L3025 on its west side to try and articulate both the cobble floor and the wall L3017 which is directly south of L3025. The cobble surface does not continue north at the this level. Perhaps it comes sharply down and is under the current surface of dirt. C2 has cleared their baulk and I can see that the cobble surface does not continue into their baulk. I need now to define new loci. I will do that tomorrow when I have the morning light and a clean area. In the south when expanding to try to define the wall the borders were about 10 cm past where the wall was supposed to be. This is the same problem that I had yesterday. I am probably trying to define a mud wall which is incredibly hard to do. So we have the same problem as yesterday where we probably have mixed loci. Tomorrow I will have Lynne help me with the redefinition of my loci Also, there was miscommunication with one of my workers who started digging the mound of conglomerated something which is on top of the cobble surface. I caught him almost right away but the west most 5 cm is gone.

Today we also scraped 5 cm off the top of L3021 starting from yesterday's stopping point and continuing N all the way to its northern border with L3025. I did this for 2 reasons. First, I wanted to try to catch the other side of the wall L3017 which was unsuccessful because L3025 was extended past it. Second, I wanted to articulate the W side of the stone wall L3005. This was unsuccessful although I don't see an associated surface on the W side of it.

We also lifted almost the entire cobble surface of 3013 in the SE part of the trench. Here we found a grinding stone KT3194 and a terra cotta half circle with a hole through the center (KT3190). We also revealed more stones that may be associated with the stones in the rest of the locus. All the stones seem to be inside or underneath the cobble surface, so the cobble surface is probably later than the stones. The workers who dug this surface also dug inside the stone circle going into the baulk which is now L3025. He found an ash layer that is not enclosed in the stone circle.