| Roster |
Date |
Author |
Record |
| Daily notes about recovery of elements |
2006-08-20 |
sC |
Today we continued digging f35 with the big pick all the unit (q60, q62, q66). At the elevation of q60 the feature was characterized by a compact surface that, once removed with the big pick, presented a soft consistence. Finished the day by cleaning the unit and respective baulks. [Input: Q820SC.j] |
| 2006-08-21 |
sC |
Today we continued digging f35 with the big pick all the unit (q68, q72, q73). At the elevation of q68 the feature was characterizeb by a medium compact consistence. From this q-lot on, the matrix of the soil has no changed, although the patches of soft soil were more unifomily spread within the unit; the feature was also charachetrized by the presence of few roots; in particular, at the elevation of q72 a big root has been removed (120m long, and thick aprox 5 cm). At the elevation of q73 the feature was crumble and very fine in texture, and is same of f29 in k63. So far we have not expose any stone. I am aspecting to expose one/some tomorrow, as we are reaching the same elevation of k82. Finished the day by cleaning the unit and respective baulks. The work in this unit has been a bit slow in the previous days, and therefore we are still very high in elevation. I suppose we will arrive at the same elevation as in k74, k73, k71 and k63 in two working days. [Input: Q821SC.j] |
| 2006-08-22 |
sC |
Today we continued digging f35 with the big pick all the unit (q75, q80). The matrix of the soil is the same as yesterday, and still few big roots are present and uncovered as we dig. f35 is the same of f37 in k63, f36 in k74 and of f38 in k64. At the elevation of q75 we exposed a stone in the NW area of the unit; two other stones have been exposed at elevation of q80: one in the NW corner, the other close to the E section of the unit. At the end of the day we reached the same elevation as in k72 in all the unit. Tomorrow we still have to prepare the E and W section and then we can start removing the S baulk of the unit. [Input: Q822SC.j] |
| 2006-08-30 |
sC |
Today we continued digging f66 in k62 (q150, q153, q157, q165). f66 is characterized by a compact soil, especially in the NW corner of the unit, and by the presence of small stone and pebbles, which are positined randomly in the whole square. After breakfast we move the elevator in the S portion of the unit and contined digging f66 in k62. [Input: Q830SC.j] |
| 2006-08-31 |
sC |
Today we continued digging f66 in k62 (q170). In the N portion of the square we exposed several small stones (f159). These stones are small in dimensions, are characterized by a SW-NE allignment. These stones do not seem to belong to the possible secondary apron we were expecting to find, and do not apper to be in relation with the stones in k71. Also in this square the soil is very compact and characterized by the presence of bricks and melted bricks the accumulation, which is the same of f63 in k72 and of the accumulation found today in k63, f67. The brick fragments, which are close to the stones f159, are particular visible in the N portion of the square (close to the N section) where also some small pebbles have been exposed. [Input: Q831sC.j] |
| 2006-09-02 |
sC |
Today we move the elevator from k62 to k64. We then continued and finished to remove f66 in all the square. This was thick aproximately 5cm –10 cm (q187, q191). In this square we have so far exposed two different allignment of stones, both with a SW-NE allignment. We assigned f84 to the major allignment of stone, which we interpret as a wall. This runs SW-NE and cross the whole square. Some pottery have been found on top of some stone of this wall, and have been collected in a different q-lot (q188). mKB looked at them, and told us that there most of the sherd belong to Mittani and that some sherds belong instead a earlier phase (phase 3). At the end of the day, gB and jO come in our unit, suggested me to remove the floating limestones abutting the E section in k62. We thus assigned a new feature number, f82 to the stone (r70) and f82 to its pedestal and tomorrow we will remove it. [Input: Q902sC2.j] |
| 2006-09-03 |
sC |
Today we did not dig in this square but only removed f82, the floating limestone close to the E section (f83, q199). dM took a particular view of the wall f84 (v57, 57a). [Input: Q903SC.j] |
| 2006-09-05 |
sC |
Today we did not worked in this square. We only assigne a new feature number to the two floating stones (and relative pedestal) close to the N baulk of k62: f108 (close to the W section, with the pedestal being f109) and f110 (with the pedestal being f111). [Input: Q905SC.j] |
| 2006-09-11 |
pC |
Last week we stop digging in k62. However up today we do not know whether f84 (the alligned stones running SW-NE) is a wall or a drain. Therefore during a discussion in the field with gB, fAB and J4 staff, we decided to do a sounding under one stone of f84 in order to give an answer concerning f84. We removed the 4th stone from the S: the extension of the sounding was 70cm S and 35cm E from r91 and it was located at the elevation of m4447 +120 -149 at the top and at m4447 +100 -149 at the bottom. We found that the stone is located on an amourphous accumulation which is very fine in texture, dusty and poor in pottery sherds (q259). Since we did not found anything below it, we all came to the conclusion that it is better to excavate all the area and see if it is following also NE, in k51: therfore we decided to live it for the next season, while we have not enough time to dig all the square this season. fAB also observed that f84 is a later wall: the glacis in k72 is sloping in the E side and it should continue also in k62: therefore the wall f84 it is later because it is higher than the glacis f127. [Input: Q911PC.J] |