07/05/2002

C2

Daily Journal.

Continued the work that was begun on L2103 yesterday. Took much needed photos of the locus. As we (myself and two workmen) continued to remove the soil we uncovered pottery, KT 2763, animal bones, KT 2764, and lithics KT 2765. Besides from these we uncovered two shells, KT 2766. I took 6 carbon samples, KT # 2767, 2768, 2771, 2772, 2773 and 2778. Of potential interest is carbon sample KT 2772, as it comes from the area that formerly L2085, an area of wall tumble, which was removed.

A note about the bones and charcoal: A lot of this came from the area along the east baulk, ca. one liter was sampled, KT 2774. The finds in this area could be the remnants of the already known ash pit. This pit was partly excavated last year.

On the northern part of the east baulk, we saw something that might look like mudbrick. But further investigation wrote off that possibility.

Again we found a small amount of possible plaster, KT 2769. Some interesting dirt was sampled as well KT 2771.

Needless to say, L2103 is a very mixed locus, but it served its purpose as a cleaning locus. But it gave an indication of where we should put the loci afterwards.

The ashy dark area that produced the charcoal and burnt bones was photographed at the end of the day.

After this I opened L2104. This locus is equal to L2048. Did some cleaning, scraping between the stones of this wall. This produced some finds: Pottery KT 2775, animal bones KT 2776 and lastly lithics KT 2777. The cleaning operation was concentrated in the southern end of the wall.

This was so that the wall, L2104, could be seen clearly on the photos in the future