June 11, 2007

Area D

Trench 6

Jason Kennedy and Barish Uzel

We began today by removing Locus 126 in order to attempt to define the wall (Locus 131) running north to south through the eastern part of the trench. In doing so we discovered what could be a wall emerging out of the SW corner of the trench. Next we began to remove Locus 134, along the east baulk of the trench to further define Wall 131. Barish then began working on following surface Locus 129 into Locus 130, uncovering 2 stone tools, a hammerstone and a basalt fishnet weight (L 130 KT 1 and KT 2). The workers then removed Locus 133, bringing it down 5 cm to the level of Locus 134. We then began to take down Locus 132 in order to define the depth of wall 131, and to attempt to discover any east to west walls that may intersect wall 1312. Finally we removed wall 117, after determining that it did not continue any further down and was most likely mudbrick slump.