.bk A14
.fl O628jw4.j
.fd daily journal O627, descriptions f184-f187
.ei jw
.ed O628
.rd O627
.ri jw

-wk 9 picks and 12 in support reported for work.  Khdr detailed to another unit in mid-day.  Ahmed Shamden excused at 1030 to attend funeral of relative.

-sf gm ill and worked at home for the entire day.  As long as this situation continues, jw will be the sole staff member at the site and therefore the journal will be sparse.  Most of his time will be devoted to supervising operations and maintaining the logs.

-sy marker m3423 loosened and removed.

-dy continued to remove the black ash, f170, in the SW corner of k5.  Excavating k25 and k24 to find the extent of the immense layer of ancient and modern gully wash that we noticed in k15 and k14.  Isolated, and continued to excavate the clay projectiles in k13.  The working assumption is that they were being manufactured here.

f 170
df ly
ds very thin layer of powdery black ash as seen in section in the SW corner of k5.  At various times we have wavered between designating this a layer or pit fill.  Once the black material had been completely excavated, it was clear that the feature was a layer whose thickness never exceeded 5cm, and extended throughout the entire SW quadrant.  As we excavated, we mixed f170 with overlaying and underlaying clean laminations, giving the appearance of a pit, bounded by the clean northern and eastern horizontal boundary of the layer.

f 184
df cut
ds cut for a pit, a13, in the middle of the E baulk line of k4.

f 185
df a
ds accumulation below topsoil, f183, throughout the entire locus k24.

f 186
df lm
ds laminations below topsoil, f182, throughout the entire locus k25.

f 187
df bp
ds large group of deteriorated bricks in the middle of the south half of k13.  May be a part of a facility to manufacture clay projectiles found nearby in accumulation, f181, to the north.