.bk A09
.fl J709jlw1.j
.fd daily journal
.ei jlw
.ed J709
.rd J708
.ri jlw

-wk 6 large picks and 33 in support.  Khaled Ali Shellal and ???? both from the tents departed at the end of the work day.  Need replacements.

k 3
dy continued to excavate layers of accumulation above patio pebble floor, f80.  Found what may be this feature in the northern third of the one meter-wide test excavation.  The accumulation over the floor was wet and compacted, filled with a relatively large amount of sherds and bones.  This may confirm the impression that it was the floor that trapped moisture and refuse and that the floor continues north into the baulk, hopefully to meet a wall.

k 4
dy excavated all of ashy layer, f98, in west part of locus. Remains very difficult to keep layers separated during excavation.  For whatever reason, the layers of accumulation seem to be better separated to the east and north, away from the doorway, a18. 

k 6 
dy ashy layer continues in much of the east part of locus.  We are approaching the stone wall/threshold, f117, that may help define the use of the large open space that encompasses at least parts of k3, k4, k5, k6, k7, and k9.

k 9
dy finished cleaning and photographing the collection of features that define what is likely to be parts of several houses and a path between them.  Then, resumed excavating the southern half of the locus.  We are still deciding whether to keep the north part intact in order to display the link between settlements to the east and west of A9.  There was a deep sherd and stone layer, f139, that extended N-S down the middle of the square, but we only saved the northern part.  The architecture is very close to the surface and probably has been heavily eroded by the wash down the gully, which runs from north to south.

f 140
dy completely excavated the small layer, which was less than one meter in diameter.  All sherds in q372.

q 372
ds contains all the sherds from layer f140.

a 21
df dw
ds consists of a step-up threshold and an in-situ door socket in the NE corner of locus k9.  The socket is located on the SE corner of the threshold, below the sill. so it is likely that the door opened to the south, out of the presumed house it went with, which is still covered in the next square to the north.