July 7, 2001

We continue to clean after taking elevations with the total station. In the Southeast we swept to see if anything was left from last year. Then we continued cutting level and rock articulating from SE corner North. Also we are leveling NW corner and the West baulk.

All pottery and other finds are being collected from the entire locus for now. The whole trench is L1054 as we clean up collapse. As each section of the trench is cleaned to a decent place it will get a new locus number. To keep things straight Stratigraphically I will mark these new loci as below last year’s even though technically they will also be below L1054.

Some interesting stuff is coming in NE corner. There are rocks in a line and pottery, this is L1055 now. They have cleaned the West and North baulk and places. There are many rocks along the East baulk but it is hard to see order since they are scattered about.

We are sweeping down everything for a look with the water sprayer. I also photoed the rocks on the East baulk.

Moved on to the West baulk. We saw the row of possible mudbrick left from last year but then I decided to knock it out and dig down. Some carbon samples, KTs1441 and a possible 1444, if its not dark dirt, were found in this locus L1056.

Now I want to dig on the South baulk. There is some soil color so I laid a trench east of it called L1057. Nothing was found in either trench.

To quantify for photos I named the SE corner rocks and brick L1058.