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Code
AFG.08.30
Season
2008
Narrative

A clear and windy day today, but not too windy to work the entire time in both AB3 and 4.In AB4 we photographed the beginning of our locus 4 wall, and then spent the rest of the morning pulling stones and further cleaning the construction. At the base of the second course (also the effective base of the locus 3 matrix) we encountered a good deal pottery, a Late Bronze projectile point, and a nice stone bead (large). The wall retains a good deal of integrity past the east-west trench boundary, but we now have to dig deeper (locus 6) in order to pedestal and pull more wall fall. We set up a locus 5 to the south of the locus 4 wall, in the small space between the construction and the trench wall. Some additional stones were found here, but no clear picture on how wide the wall might be. Tomorrow we will dig deeper in locus 6, cleaning stones and pedestalling them in hope of further clarification.The work in AB3 was also productive as we removed new locus 14, 15, and 16, a clay strip, ash pools by the stone basin, and the charcoal "beam-like" lens at trench center respectively. This enabled us to photo the entire trench before we pulled a lot of the central trench rock fall associated with the locus 13 pit. With those loci removed and wall fall pulled and cleaned we have a much better picture of the size and shape of our pit, which is curvilnear, but not circular. It is difficult to say at this point whether it is a pit or a bedrock "trench." The locus consistsing of smashed vessels and boulders which currently seals the pit is locus 17. Tomorrow we will be photographing and pulling locus 17, or more specifically pulling all the ceramics, but have of the rocks, in order to leave a sufficient stratigraphic pedestal.