July 26, 2000

We will begin today by taking elevations of all the presently existing loci. We will then continue to level and trowel L2008 and L2010 in the hope of defining the course of our mudbrick wall. We will also clean up L2007 and L2009 in order to better define the area of our oven. Then we will probably go further down on L2007.

After consulting with Bradley we noticed that we had at least three mud brick walls in our trench. We are still trying to define where the wall in L2008 goes, but the walls in L2007 and L2010 are fairly clear. Our hearth turned out to be three hearths. We believe it is a migrating hearth where one was built and then it gets moved around for one reason or another.  We are currently trying to determine the depths of these hearths. The hearths become opened up as a new locus- L2012. We came to the bottom of L2011 and closed that locus. A wall is now becoming apparent in L2009. This along with a stone wall in L2012. Also in L2012 we have uncovered a small ceramic piece which looks to me like an open chicken beak. This is probably the first true small find of the dig. We took measurements and diagrammed the walls and hearths in our day plan, page 6. Tomorrow we have the day off, but the day after that we will probably come down around the hearths and the walls. All in all it was a good day of excavation and it is too bad that Chuck wasn't present for it. Most important, our small find and plethora of mudbrick walls really shows up our archrival trench, those B2 bastards.