C3 Daily Journal, August 4, 2002

We are continuing to dig the large ash pit, L3085, Which may or may not be an ash layer. We are finding a couple pf clusters of rocks on opposite sides of the pit that may be from some structure. We will have to wait until we dig more in L3089, which is the locus next to the S baulk that the pit cuts. There is what looks to be another ashy area S of the pit that is the same ash as L3085. It may be that it is the same as L3085 and L3089 is just a bit of mudbrick collapse above it. If it is I will be more convinced that this is an ash layer and not an ash pit. The reason I am not convinced that it is an ash layer is because of its depth and it looks like there is a line where it is cutting L3089 and L3088. I am taking L3089 down 5cm to see if the soil changes to the ashy soil that is in L3085. If it does then I will start calling L3085 an ash layer. I am also scraping the area just N of wall L3083 to see if it continues N. Also I am digging L3087, which is the area enclosed by L3083 and the E baulk, down 5cm to see if I can find a surface associated with it.