.bk J03
.fl Q812vE2.j
.fd daily journal for Q812
.fn Edited on R720, and R919 by jW
.ri vVE
.rd Q812
.ed Q812
.ei vVE

--i Many loci will be excavated in J3 during this campaign with several supervisors who will take care of the administration. If we would record everything in one binder, this could create some unnecessary stress and lines of people who need to record observations. In order to avoid this we will record the administration in a different binder that will still be part of book J3. We will let all of our records start at 500 to avoid overlap. Only the relays will start at 1000, since so many relays are triangulated each season. Our book will be called J3 East, because we will excavate the eastern-most loci. In this area we will try to expose the revetment wall and the second apron and try to establish the stratigraphic and chronological connection between the second apron and the revetment wall. 

-dy Today we started to clean both loci k1 and k2. In k2 only some backfill was removed, while k1 was also excavated and there several feature numbers were assigned. 

k 1 
dy The excavation of k1 in J3 had already begun in 2004 during MZ17(2004-O) as a locus of J2. At the moment I am still unable to equate my feature assignments to those of J2, because the J2 MZ17 files are not yet accessible. Still visible are several features that had been exposed during the previous campaigns: f501, f502, f503, f504, f505, f506, f507, f508, f509, f510, f511. See v500 for the state of preservation of k01 at the start of this season. We left all of these features standing and started to excavate the surface of k01. This deposit is f500 and the sections seem to indicate that this deposit is a continuation of what was lying on top of it. The stones of features f502, f503, f504, f505, f506, f507, f508, f509, f510 and f511 are resting on and embedded in this deposit, f500. All these stones together constitute aggregate a500. 

f 500
ds Feature f500 is a slightly reddish light gray clay deposit that seems to be a continuation of the last deposits excavated in this locus duuring MZ17. It is a natural accumulation. This means that the stones of f502, f503, f504, f505, f506, f507, f508, f509, f510, f511 are resting on and embedded in this (combined) f500. These features embedded in f500 are aggregate a500.
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a 500
dy The features that make up a500 had already been exposed in a previous campaign when this locus, J3 k1, was a locus of J2. These features were left standing and the deposits around and/or under it were excavated. I decided on the basis of the same depositional history for all these features and their close vicinity that these features constitute one aggregate, a500. 
ds Aggregate a500 consists of several large boulders (f502, f503, f504, f505, f506, f507, f508, f509 and f510) and a pebble concentration (f511) that lie scattered in a natural accumulation. I consider it as a collapse coming from the second apron to the north of a500. 
ar The distribution of the cluster of stones of a500 is somewhat scattered and seems to slightly descend from the North to the South. These two observations seem to argue that they were dislodged from a stone structure that must have been laying to the north. This could only have been the second apron whose remaining top stones are already visible in k2 or, more precisely, in the older German trench in unit B6. However, the stones of a500 do not seem to lay on the same surface (no surface is in fact apparent) and this argues for the interpretation that the stones were deposited over time and not in a single event.

f 501
dy This feature had already been exposed in a previous campaign when this locus, J3 k1, was a locus of J2. It was left standing and the deposits around and/or under it were excavated. This feature was assigned to a500.
ds Feature f501 is a pebble pavement that protrudes from the Southern section of locus k1. The main part of f501 is quite level but as it extends to the East it descends and ends slightly above f502.
ar The distribution of the cluster of stones of a500 is somewhat scattered and seems to slightly descend from the North to the South. These two observations seem to argue that they were dislodged from a stone structure that must have been laying to the north. This could only have been the second apron whose remaining top stones are already visible in k2 or, more precisely, in the older German trench B6. However, the stones of a500 do not seem to lay on the same surface (no surface is in fact apparent) and this argues for the interpretation that the stones were deposited over time and not in a single event. 

f 502
dy This feature had already been exposed in a previous campaign when this locus, J3 k1, was a locus of J2. It was left standing and the deposits around and/or under it were excavated. This feature was assigned today to a500.
ds Feature f502 is a large stone. Until now it is still embedded in f500, and thus the exact measurements remain for now unknown. I assume that it is part of the scatter of boulders that define a500. It was lying just below the point where the downwards sloping extension of f501 ended. 
ar The distribution of the cluster of stones of a500 is somewhat scattered and seems to slightly descend from the North to the South. These two observations seem to argue that they were dislodged from a stone structure that must have been lying to the north. This could only have been the second apron whose remaining top stones are already visible in k2 or, more precisely, in the older German trench B6. However, the stones of a500 do not seem to lie on the same surface (no surface is in fact apparent) and this argues for the interpretation that the stones were deposited over time and not in a single event.

f 503
dy This feature had already been exposed in a previous campaign when this locus, J3 k1, was a locus of J2. It was left standing and the deposits around and/or under it were excavated. This feature was assigned today to a500.
ds Feature f503 is a very large boulder. Until today it was still embedded in f500. It lies just to the South of f504 and East of f505.
ar The distribution of the cluster of stones of a500 is somewhat scattered and seems to slightly descend from the North to the South. These two observations seem to argue that they were dislodged from a stone structure that must have been lying to the north. This could only have been the second apron whose remaining top stones are already visible in k2 or, more precisely, in the older German trench B6. However, the stones of a500 do not seem to lie on the same surface (no surface is in fact apparent) and this argues for the interpretation that the stones were deposited over time and not in a single event.

f 504
dy This feature had already been exposed in a previous campaign when this locus, J3 k1, was a locus of J2. It was left standing and the deposits around and/or under it were excavated. This feature was assigned today to a500.
ds Feature f504 is a large boulder and surrounds along with f505, f506 and f507 the pebbles of f511.
ar The distribution of the cluster of stones of a500 is somewhat scattered and seems to slightly descend from the North to the South. These two observations seem to argue that they were dislodged from a stone structure that must have been lying to the north. This could only have been the second apron whose remaining top stones are already visible in k2 or, more precisely, in the older German trench B6. However, the stones of a500 do not seem to lie on the same surface (no surface is in fact apparent) and this argues for the interpretation that the stones were deposited over time and not in a single event.

f 505
dy This feature had already been exposed in a previous campaign when this locus, J3 k1, was a locus of J2. It was left standing and the deposits around and/or under it were excavated. This feature was assigned today to a500.
ds Feature f505 is a large boulder and surrounds along with f504, f506 and f507 the pebbles of f511.
ar The distribution of the cluster of stones of a500 is somewhat scattered and seems to slightly descend from the North to the South. These two observations seem to argue that they were dislodged from a stone structure that must have been lying to the north. This could only have been the second apron whose remaining top stones are already visible in k2 or, more precisely, in the older German trench B6. However, the stones of a500 do not seem to lie on the same surface (no surface is in fact apparent) and this argues for the interpretation that the stones were deposited over time and not in a single event.

f 506
dy This feature had already been exposed in a previous campaign when this locus, J3 k1, was a locus of J2. It was left standing and the deposits around and/or under it were excavated. This feature was assigned today to a500.
ds Feature f506 is a very large boulder and surrounds along with f504, f505 and f507 the pebbles of f511. 
ar The distribution of the cluster of stones of a500 is somewhat scattered and seems to slightly descend from the North to the South. These two observations seem to argue that they were dislodged from a stone structure that must have been lying to the north. This could only have been the second apron whose remaining top stones are already visible in k2 or, more precisely, in the older German trench B6. However, the stones of a500 do not seem to lie on the same surface (no surface is in fact apparent) and this argues for the interpretation that the stones were deposited over time and not in a single event.

f 507
dy This feature had already been exposed in a previous campaign when this locus, J3 k1, was a locus of J2. It was left standing and the deposits around and/or under it were excavated. This feature was assigned today to a500.
ds Feature f507 is a large boulder and surrounds along with f504, f505 and f506 the pebbles of f511. 
ar The distribution of the cluster of stones of a500 is somewhat scattered and seems to slightly descend from the North to the South. These two observations seem to argue that they were dislodged from a stone structure that must have been lying to the north. This could only have been the second apron whose remaining top stones are already visible in k2 or, more precisely, in the older German trench B6. However, the stones of a500 do not seem to lie on the same surface (no surface is in fact apparent) and this argues for the interpretation that the stones were deposited over time and not in a single event.

f 508
dy This feature had already been exposed in a previous campaign when this locus, J3 k1, was a locus of J2. It was left standing and the deposits around and/or under it were excavated. This feature was assigned today to a500.
ds Feature f508 is a large boulder that lies a little off to the Soutwest of the cluster of boulders and pebbles formed by f504, f505, f506, f507 and f511. 
ar The distribution of the cluster of stones of a500 is somewhat scattered and seems to slightly descend from the North to the South. These two observations seem to argue that they were dislodged from a stone structure that must have been lying to the north. This could only have been the second apron whose remaining top stones are already visible in k2 or, more precisely, in the older German trench B6. However, the stones of a500 do not seem to lie on the same surface (no surface is in fact apparent) and this argues for the interpretation that the stones were deposited over time and not in a single event.

f 509
dy This feature had already been exposed in a previous campaign when this locus, k1 in J3, was a locus of J2. It was left standing and the deposits around and/or under it were excavated. This feature was assigned today to a500.
ds Feature f509 is a very large boulder that lies just north of f506 and under f510 which overlays it. 
ar The distribution of the cluster of stones of a500 is somewhat scattered and seems to slightly descend from the North to the South. These two observations seem to argue that they were dislodged from a stone structure that must have been lying to the north. This could only have been the second apron whose remaining top stones are already visible in k2 or, more precisely, in the older German trench B6. However, the stones of a500 do not seem to lie on the same surface (no surface is in fact apparent) and this argues for the interpretation that the stones were deposited over time and not in a single event.

f 510
dy This feature had already been exposed in a previous campaign when this locus, J3 k1, was a locus of J2. It was left standing and the deposits around and/or under it were excavated. This feature was assigned today to a500.
ds Feature f510 is a large boulder that extends from the Northern baulk and rests on f509 which it overlays. 
ar The distribution of the cluster of stones of a500 is somewhat scattered and seems to slightly descend from the North to the South. These two observations seem to argue that they were dislodged from a stone structure that must have been lying to the north. This could only have been the second apron whose remaining top stones are already visible in k2 or, more precisely, in the older German trench B6. However, the stones of a500 do not seem to lie on the same surface (no surface is in fact apparent) and this argues for the interpretation that the stones were deposited over time and not in a single event.

f 511
dy Part of this feature had already been exposed in a previous campaign when this locus, J3 k1, was a locus of J2. Now the deposits surrounding and covering it were excavated and this feature, a concentration of pebbles, became visible. This feature was assigned today to a500. 
ds Feature f511 is a concentration of pebbles that lies between f504, f505, f506 and f507 and against their bases. 
ar The distribution of the cluster of stones of a500 is somewhat scattered and seems to slightly descend from the North to the South. These two observations seem to argue that they were dislodged from a stone structure that must have been lying to the north. This could only have been the second apron whose remaining top stones are already visible in k2 or, more precisely, in the older German excavation unit B6. However, the stones of a500 do not seem to lie on the same surface (no surface is in fact apparent) and this argues for the interpretation that the stones were deposited over time and not in a single event.

k 2
dy Today a picture, v501, was taken of this area and of the state of preservation of the German trench in B6. Then a lot of backfill was excavated, the sherds collected and counted: three base sherds, 5 rims and 53 body sherds had been found. Not all dirt could be removed but this will be completed tomorrow morning. 
ds At the western edge of k2 starts the old trench in B6, excavated by a German team from Tuebingen University. The trench runs from West to East but has a different orientation than the J3 grid. As the trench progresses East it also runs more to the North. The baulk walls have in some places caved in slightly, but are generally in reasonable condition. It now has approximately the following dimensions: 260 x 880 cm.