July 8, 2001

We started to come down in L1057 and L1056 again. Then it seems we hit a surface in L1057. We will level the trench to there.

We are cutting North to the baulk in L1056 taking all of last year’s stuff out. Also we start to level the center in a new L1059.

L1056 is bringing up burned pieces of dirt. The whole locus is quite hard packed. There are lots of bones. It seems, by the West baulk, to be quite perfectly sealed by bricks above. We cut it straight about 1m from the North baulk, because stuff was coming up like burnt dirt and coloration. I will check to see what I can see.

We started to dig Eastward in L1059 with the big pick but we kept coming up with large artifacts so we slowed down.

We found that the elevation for the C4- Southwest trench datum is 93.678, now I will shoot levels with that for carbon samples. We found lots of little pieces of carbon under those bricks. It would be interesting to date them.