.bk A20
.fl S716lr
.fd journal
.ed S716
.ei lR
.rd S716
.ri lR

f 5
dy Removed 10cms from the northwest corner in order to understand f11. One assumption is that f11 could possibly be a stone wall or a modern burial with the stones used as markers for the grave however no pit cut was noted. Smaller stones were also found under the larger stones. One strategy is to continue excavating down to see if the stones continue.

f 11
dy Excavated 10cms from f5 to see if any pit cuts were visible. No cuts were present but the stones continue to go down, with smaller stones found under the larger stones.

f 18
dy The southern area of this feature is beginning to show soft ashy soil mixed with more compact bricky material. Several small tannur pieces were found with similar matrix present to the south in k2. The relationship between f18 and this ashy material is unclear. In some places f18 was found below, sloping down but then f18 disappears.

f 14
dy Excavated 15 cms down to see if any bricks or pit cuts were present using the small pick and trowel. In the northwest corner several gray bricks were found, it appears that they are broken. There bricks were left in place.

f 15
ds two medium sized stones clustered together in the southwest area of the locus. The area was cleaned and scraped to see if a pit cut was present. The southern border showed a clear cut but the north remains unclear. The matrix surrounding f15 was excavated 10-15 centimeters to see if the pit cut surfaces in the north. At the end of the day, bricky material emerged in the southwest corner and the northern area is starting to become slightly darker in color.

f 13
dy excavated feature completely today to follow f17.

f 17
dy continued to follow f17, compact layer in the eastern half of the locus by removing f13. f17 was found immediately after two brick pick runs.

k 14
dy opened locus today and started by removing f19 topsoil with the strategy to see if the compact layer seen in the other loci extends into k14. The topsoil was thin in this locus, given that the tell slopes to the east so by the end of the day compact bricky material surfaced in the western half of the locus.

k 2
dy concentrated our efforts in the western half of the locus that is higher in elevation in order to define the stones f13, f15. 15cms was removed from the entire western half of k2 with two pottery lots created that separated soil in the north and to the south. The eastern half of the locus is more excavated than the west, approximately 30 centimeters. This arbitrary section was cleaned today with nothing seen in profile.
sg Tomorrow, the bricks faces that surfaced today should be defined to see if they are in situ or brick fall. Since the area remains unclear, we will continue to use the small pick to eventually arrive to the same elevation as the eastern half of the locus.