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-wk Twenty assigned workmen reported.

-sy Markers m4991 and m4927 loosened and removed.  Relayed excavation limits for expansion of f100.  Installed control points for excavation of escarpment.

k 13
dy Began to remove the north baulk as volumetric material, f155.

k 32
dy Drew, w18, and photographed, v93 the north baulk.  Drew, w19, and photographed, v94, the east baulk in preparation for removal.

k 33
dy Drew, w17, and photographed, v90, the bottom part of the north baulk in preparation for removal.

k 43
dy Began to remove the north baulk as volumetric material, f156.  Photographed north section, v91.

k 54
dy Photographed the halted excavation, v95.  Placed plastic sheeting on the bottom and began to backfill it using soil from a number of loci under excavation.

k 22
dy Began to excavate laminar, natural accumulation, f157.  It is a narrow strip that follows the south face of revetment wall, f3.  The goal is to determine if the escarpment to the plaza is continuous from the west face (where it is f74) to the plaza itself, excavated as J1f239 in this and previous seasons.

k 100
dy We exended the locus to the southwest by 150cm to improve the sightlines from the new observation platform south of k32.
sg We will dig out the northeast teeth to within 100cm of the old baulk line.  Also, we will excavate the northeastern two thirds of the southwest extension to the level already excavated along the northeastern edge.  Then, we will slope the remaing 50cm slice from the surface on the southwest to the lower level to the northeast.

f 155
ds A line of unfounded irregularly shaped stone blocks extending to the southwest from the southwestern corner of k22.  The purpose is unknown.  They may serve, in conjunction with f161, as a buttress to the sharp turn of the wall corner.

f 156
ds The volumetric material in the north baulk of k43, which will be removed as one feature, having been previously well-documented during excavation and by drawing and photography.

f 157
ds The accumulation between the south face of the final iteration of revetment wall, f3, and the northeast excavated face of k100.  It extends from the southwest corner of k22, through k11 and k1 to J1.  There is a relatively thin surface layer which probably reflects the natural aeolian accumulation that has built up since f3 was partially excavated in several previous seasons.  Underneath is a brown layer of soil, then patches of reddish baqaya, then the top of an ashy series of laminiations, f158.