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-dy We finished excavating f442 in k30 today.  Afterwards, in addition to a small sliver of f441 which we had missed along the western edge of k29, we excavated f443 and a small sample in the southeast corner of f444.  These two features consisted of a series of poor, dirty laminations, filled with stones and pottery lying flat, which could only be properly observed and excavated when the layer was very dry, as was the case only in the corner of f444.  So, we were forced to excavate f443 as a block of soil, rather than a series of layers, because it was too wet to distinguish between the laminations, and we have neither the time nor the resources to fully dry out each layer before we excavate it.  Within f443, we found the sloping face, f445, and the white layer f446 connecting with f440 in k31.
-sg As we seem to have found the extent