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-wk 6 large picks and 27 in support

f 128
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ds located on the eastern edge of a platform that was not completely excavated at the end of the 1997 season.  The accumulation has a powder-like texture with hard lumps after picking.  Likely to be brickmelt seen at about the same elevation in k4 in the 1997 season, but which has dried out.
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-wk train does not have enough capacity to carry dirt from three squares that are being excavated with big picks.  Requested 6 additional workmen to carry dirt up the hill from k7 and k8 to free the train to handle the dirt from k3 and k6.

f 122  
dy made two pick runs today, reaching the approximate elevation of k4 on the last run.  Some leveling still needed.  Still finding chunks of burned material and pieces of baked brick.  Not much pottery, a few bones, a clay lump and a figurine leg are all the artifacts for about 8 cubic meters of volume removed.

k 3
sg tomorrow (J703) we will level with a small pick run, clean, and suspend work until k6, k7 and k8 reach the same elevation before resuming excavating k3 to k8 as a single unit.

f 128
dy made two runs with large pick and one with small pick.  Began to notice brick chunks throughout f128, which is about a 3 square meter platform on the eastern end of k6.  Cleaned and leveled in preparation for a closer look on J703.  A patch of burned soil appeared in the north baulk.  Designated f129.  It was higher in the west and sloped to the east.  On top was a sliver of brick-like material.  It conveyed the image of a layer of ash draped over a wall, but it is much too early to tell.  There is one large brick chunk in the middle of the platform at about the same elevation.  It is to the north of and above some large stones that we had previously believed could have founded a wall.
sg tomorrow we will inspect the surface after it has dried.  We will make one more small pick run to attempt to define bricks before we decide whether to resume excavating with the large pick.

f 110
dy excavating on the SW corner of the platform left over from the 1997 excavations, just above and to the north of sherd floor, f120.  (We want to determine the extents of this floor.)  Found some very red soil and just underneath, pieces of a large, broken jar.

k 6
dy covered doorway, a17, and sherd floor, f120 to preserve these delicate features.  Postponed excavating a17 as proposed by gb a few days ago in order to expose more of f120, if it exists.

f 122
dy made three large pick runs.  Slowed by dirt train overload.  Dirt from last run not carried away by quitting time.  Faint traces of a few courses of bricks found in west baulk.  Bricks almost the color of the dirt with slightly darker mortar lines.  No obvious architecture associated with them in the excavated portion.

k 8
sg plan on using new removal team to expedite excavation of this locus.  We will carry dirt uphill and build new berms to protect this year's excavations.