.bk A14
.fl O625jw.j
.fd daily journal O624, descriptions f181-f183
.ei jw
.ed O625
.rd O624
.ri jw

-wk 7 picks and 12 in support reported for work.

-sf representative of the Department of Antiquities, Hickman, began to work with the unit, joining jw and gm.  gm spent the last two hours after breakfast processing objects at home.

-eq tents fully functional.  Workman efficiency improved.

-so created a new level pathway just south of the S berm to provide a safe path between the upper level of excavations (A17/A18) and A12/A14.  This should minimize the possibility of material rolling downhill into the abi or onto the excavations to the west.

-dy opened two new loci, k24,k25, on the west side of the unit.  Continued to excavate k13, exploring the extent of accumulation f181, which yielded over 130 clay artifacts.

f 182
df ts
ds topsoil from k25. Surface contained a number of stones on the surface.  No ceramics of interest.

f 183
df ts
ds topsoil from k24. Surface contained a number of stones on the surface.  No ceramics of interest.

f 181
df a
ds this feature is a horizontal layer of brown soil, markedly differing from the topsoil which covers it, f176.  f176 is dry, light, more yellow, follows the slope of the gully, and is filled with layers of roots from successive periods of gully wash and plant growth.  f181 also has, within its matrix, a relatively large number of sherds and clay artifacts, previously described.
co brown
c# 7.5YR5/4
ns unlike surrounding accumulations, laminations, and topsoils, f181 is level, contained, and has a large quantity of material suggesting this space was occupied and subject to human activity.  If the boundaries are still extant, they are expected to be found in the baulks which surround the locus.

-su f181 is the fourth feature/aggregate (others are f170, a13, a14) to have been excavated in the first week that lay along what we had originally hypothisized may have been a path that led from the west to the sacral area to the east.  The small pits do not negate the hypothesis, since they could have been dug post-abandonment.  On the other hand the large, horseshoe-shaped pit fill, f170, and the contained accumulation f181 are indicia of major occupational activities.  They stand direcly in the way of the path.  In particular, f171 is only a meter from the initially proposed boundary for the pathway, f165, a W-E line of very large stones.