Daily Trench Journal

Area C

Trench 1

July 11, 2002

I began today with Hashim finishing the southwest corner of locus 1070 (the lower section of the western area still remains). Ibrahim worked in the final section in central eastern portion. Slag began to come out so we screened the dirt and came up with a few more fragments. This area is now locus 1071. Locus 1071 also contains a good deal of pottery at all angles such as would be found in some sort of filled area. The dirt is very compact but gets softer to the east. To the west the area is cut off by the 10-15cm drop left from the 2001 excavation.

Locus 1070, the cleaning locus, continues to the western section of the trench. New KTs were started to facilitate this new section.

Locus 1072 is a section of the southern baulk adjacent to the wall (L1069) that contains a good amount of stone and broken pottery. This could have been a continuance of the wall to the south or some other sort of architectural surface. At the base of this locus a triangular fish weight was found. Also the baulk shows a yellowish arcing line that might have marked some sort of pit that was missed during excavation in the 2001 season.

Locus 1069, the wall encompassing most of the eastern baulk, was cleaned today. The central section between the two main jagged cobbles contains a great deal of flat lying pottery, possibly marking some sort of entrance to a structure or at least a passageway. The center of this area contained a large piece of greenish slag (KT 1069.10). This is unusual since no other slag has been found in the wall to this point. This area also contained an area of pebble concentration with many red river pebbles that were also saved since they were not found at other parts of the wall. A floatation sample was taken from the northern section of the wall.