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June 19, 1980

Morning

We complete out profile drawing of the east-west strech of the agger extension (Sketch 2, p. 4)

After cleaning the east and north edges of this scratch, and finding a fragment of ridgepole tile (#7), we begin a new, third cut in BB-CC 4-2 moving toward the west and south. In the yellow soil we find much hard white and yellow matter, but also small amounts of plaster and charcoal, some tile (#8) and a great deal of pottery, mainly impasto, and including a great deal of fineware and bucchero. We also get a few bits of bronze slag. Orange and coarse wares are rare. Bits of heavilly burned pottery or slag also recurr and are kept (#10). Much bone, several teeth, and antler fragments are likewise found and kept. Finds drop sharply to nil (almost) in the west- where the soil is unburnt and mottled with vivid yellow blotches- we do find a large antler fragment and a sling stone (#11), but no clear signs of human activity. In AA 3 this barren (though not virgin) soil is full of large stones. We reach the west edge of the rock fall in 2 and a depth of 40cm below the previous cut. At the margin of these rocks tile begins to reappear in quantity.

In Rect. 22 we continue to bring the northwest corner down to the level of the seed fall bottom. The fall begins to shape up as a long spread which hugs the wall. Further seed (#2), organic (#3) and non-organic (#4) samples are collected. Other areas dug are in 3C. The seeds are scattered in varying concentrations over a meter along the wall and up to 70cm out and lie in a burn layer on which, and along the top of, and in which sherds and plaster lie strewn.

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Afternoon

We continue to dig the shallow cut to the level of the Rect. 22 seeds in C3, finding small amounts of burned wood in the floor which must signal the begining of the burn layer below; also a large chunk of plaster with pronounced reed or stick impressions. We clean the tile fall in CC-DD 0-Z of the agger extension and continue to clear the soil left under the rock fall in EE-GG 0 finding tile fragments and one bucchero sherd, as well as a large bronze flake.

No finds.

Add. from the bone saved this morning.

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19800034

• Find #1
• AG-X AA-CC 4-2
• Fragment of Worked Antler
  • Drawing
  • Photograph