Today we continued to take down locus 4, the wash layer of WSI2 that lay directly beneath the topsoil. The wash layer still appears quite deep on the NW side of the trench, while locus 3, the lighter matrix, remains visible primarily in the eastern corner. Today I measured, and it looks to me as though we have a good 1.5 m to get merely to the level of the backdirt in WSI, so we definitely have a ways to go. However, the walls are slowly appearing and look fairly well preserved, at least to the NE and SE. The NW wall still is somewhat buried, as that is the downslope side of the trench.
Because I am leaving for the week, I have closed locus 4, however, it is somewhat of an arbitrary closure, as the wash layer continues in the western half of the trench. Locus 3, the lighter matrix, remains open. I have also made locus 5 (the NE wall), locus 6 (the SE wall), and locus 8 (the NW wall). Locus 7 is two sherds that were found in the wash layer but near the NE wall. They are redslipped, fine-grained, and of a lovely vessel with an interesting handle on the lip.