August 13, 2000

We took our second plan photo this morning. Now we are taking the rocks in the West off their pedastals. Also we are leveling L1037, taking the potential surface away.

The rocks in the West are the top most level of L1045. There was not much there. The entire section outside of the potential mud-brick is L1045. There is not really a definite line to make it different from L1044, but because of the location of the rocks above and Elvan's wall (L1043) on the East, the Southeast corner of L1045 is put near L1043 and L1035. There are some rocks and pieces of pottery near the West baulk on the North side of L1046, the potential mud-brick. It may be the edge of L1046 or a pit, too early to tell.

So L1046 is the mudbricky construction on the West baulk. We will clear away from it. We have already started in the South pulling away from the West baulk.

We are clearing L1037 from the South where L1034 was cut yesterday, all the way North to the NB. L1031 is closed and the fill behind L1039 will become part of L1037. We seem to be cutting through this potential surface across the board.

After breakfast we chopped L1045, the South part down 20cm in a square to straighten and look for lines. There seem to be bricks there and possibly even under where we chopped, they extend out. It is very choppy and hard to tell what is what. I found some slag in the corner that is similar to some we found a potential watermelon seed in above this.

Then we chopped down the remains of L1042 from the baulk in the Southeast corner. In the bualk there seems to have been a redline above a lot of the rocks and pottery in this section. It may have dropped off as I saw nothing like this when we cut out L1042 yesterday.

Under L1037 there seems to be a potential hole with ash-maybe an oven. The rocks on the East baulk, of L1033 and L1036, are beginning to pedastal without obvious things underneath.