.bk A9
.fl L712vp.j
.fd daily journal
.ei vp
.ed L712
.rd L710
.ri vp

k 23
sg we will continue to dig all the locus. Ali and Tariq will dig here.
dy Ali and Tariq started to dig with the big picks the accumulation f276, under the top soil f274 of k23. The whole locus shown the same accumulation c#10YR6/3 co pale brown, middle hardness, enough clean. At the end of the day, it was possible to see some bricks running NS in the NW quadrant of the locus, visible on the N section too, f288. jlw and vp decided to wait the new day for a better test of them after they dried out.

.rd L711
k 23
sg we will continue to dig on k23, to look for some new evidences about the bricks on the NW quadrant f288. Ali and Tariq will dig there. We will open a new locus on the east, k15. We will draw two sections of the NE corner of k11: Castro will draw them.
dy Ali and Tariq dug in k23; they started to dig the a f276,in the south half of locus and continued in the north half too. About 10cm down they found two different groups of bones; the first one, just animal bones q773 was in the SE quadrant and the second one, bones and fragments of cooking pots with traces of firing q776, north of the first one. vp took the elevation of both. In the same time, after an in-depth test of f288, vp and Tariq decided that there weren't bricks, but just a very hard accumulation. The whole locus shown the same accumulation.

.rd L712
-sg we will start again to dig in k22 the a f198, the ly f196, the w f197, trying to understand possible links between that locus k22 and k23 to the east and between they both and A7 on the west and A11 on the SE, where were dug some houses contemporaneous of them. Thus, we will clean all A7 and A9k9.
-dy Suliman with the bigger part of workers cleaned A7; they started to remove the ground on the plastic sheets. At the same time, Yasser with the Tariq's help cleaned k9. 

k 22
dy Tariq and Ali dug in K22; they started to dig with small picks the top of the accumulation f198,for about 15 cm.Then they continued to remove the layer on the NE corner of the locus, f196. That layer was formed by some small stones and pottery mixed with clean ground, c#10YR6/3 co pale brown. It was possible to draw parallels between that feature and the f278 on the NW corner of K23. Then vp did a sketch of the w f197 on the NW corner of K22, before to remove it. Even jlw and vp had suggested to dig until the f199, showing the whole locus north section, the dig was stopped when a new situation became visible; it was possible to see, under the old features f196,f197,f198, an hard accumulation with a very big pit along it. The color of the pit, c#10YR6/3 co pale brown, wasn't very different from the accumulation one's, c#10YR7/3, but naturally the ground within the pit was softer.