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-eq Elevator in k100 had bee broken all yesterday, but today it was running again. We also had problems with the elevator located in k15. For some reason the direction of the rotation had changed into the wrong one, which created problems. The electrician came to fix it and afterwards it was running smoothly.

-mk Removed markers m4038 and m4037.

-sg We decided to have the ledges in each unit at fixed elevations. These will be 90m, 88m, and 86m. We also decided that 1m in horizontal distance will be used for the ledge and the slope. 50 cm will be the width of the ledge and 50 cm will be used for sloping a 2 m vertical distance. The target elevation is 85m and thus the last 1 m will be a vertical section. We also decided that the area in front of the oval wall (f128) at the 85m level will be approximately the same in both J1 and J2. In J2 it will be 3.6m. This will take us to the southern edge of the N baulk of k14 formed by markers m4037 and m4038. 50 cm ledge to the south of this line will be at the elevation of 86m. The next 50cm will be used for a 2m slope. Thus 1m south of the line formed by m4037 and m4038 we will be at the elevation of 88m. This ledge will continue until the line formed by markers m3964 and m3967. Thus our 88m ledge will be 3m in width as opposed to 50 cm. This change in the overall strategy is necessitated by the elevations we have already reached. 50 cm south of the line formed by markers m3964 and m3967 will be used for the 2m slope taking us to the 90m ledge in k15. The whole of k15 will be left at this level. With the current elevations we will have to excavate approximately 1.26m down in k15, 1.76m in k14, and 4.26 in k13 and in the northern baulk of k14. The situation in k3, k4, and k5 will be slightly different as there the lowest elevation we will reach will depend on the extent of the steps of the apron f131. The current plan in k5 is to stop at 90m, but we still need to decide how we will approach the stone feature f144 since in order to expose it and examine the depositional history, we would have to deeper than 90 at least in the northern baulk of k5.

-mt We will start using the sifter in the column (once we start excavating the column again) and note, which is the first q-lot and/or feature sifted. The sifter mesh size is approximately 1.7cmx1.7cm. We will also need to mark accurate cm down for the column q-lots so that our volumes sifed and recored will be correct for possible statistical calculations.

-wk Fawaz and Adil came back to work.

k 14
dy We continued excavating in the hard feature f159 for one q-lot (q420). Since we had been using the same feature for quite some time and since the same material seemed to continue, we decided to change the feature into f161 and excavated two q-lots with this feature (q423 and q425). We found one decorative painted sherd, which we made into q-items (q423.1). The hard layer ended after this pick run and thus we changed the feature into f162. The work in this unit did not proceed as fast as normally today since the workmen had to wait for us to decide on the strategy of the ledges and their placement.

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k 5
dy sC and I drew the norther baulk of k5 yesterday afternoon. This morning we removed it (q421). The baulk was not particularly high, but its edges were very soft and thus they were a safety hazard. Before bP had put the baulk markers in we had excavated well with the limits of the unit in order to make sure that we would not accidentally excavate into our baulks. Yesterday bP but the markers in and we started to excavate the areas in between the real baulk and our excavated area. Yesterday we were able to do most of it and today we finished this work on the east (q422). After that we continued going down the whole unit (q424, q426). 

k 100
dy We continued removing the collapse.