Aug 9, 2000

Level 6 Because I only excavated one level yesterday, I really wanted to dig 2 leveles today; and I did! We removed the larger pebbles between the large linin of rocks, and we found a pebbled later right below them. I am not sure that all the small pebbled layer were covered by larger pebbles, or only half of the small pebbles were covered by large pebbles. After removing some large rocks that were lined, we found more rocks, in two rows. Both, East and west lining of rocks had two rows below one row of rocks. In section (that is E-W section) you will probably see rocks placed in triangle, two rocks at the bottom and one rocks at the top. You will see two of the triangle, East and west, and in between them, the small pebbles are layed, up to on third the triangle, and larger pebbles (5 cm in diameter) above this. We dug about 5 cm or so, and find these two lining of rocks. I removed the first layer. Since this was the same structure, I thought about not calling it a level, but I closed level 6 at this point (where I found the two two-rows of lining rocks). We took a photo, I draw a brief sketch of it, and we dug deeper! Probably Level #5 and Level #6 could go together.

About KT 3029, this strange brick was sticking out from the balk at the SE corner. At one point this brick became unstable and fell down to the trench. This brick was concave, I do not know which level that it came from, and it is too close to the surface and not worth noting the elevation (I think) but it is worth saving.

Level 7 We took the pebble and rock surface (or pathway/ steps?); excavated fair amount of soil, and here comes another surface.  This surface looks similar to that of Level# 2. There are many flat laying sherds, some rocks and pebbles. The soil is loose and sandy, somewhat ashy? It seems this level is still in the Hellenistic phase. I am not sure why there is so many surface in this trench!