Most of the work was undertaken in T27, today, were we first expanded L02 to the E in order to clean the W face of what seems to be a wall bordering the E edge of L02. In the process, I opened that wall as L06 and an additional locus to help expose the eastern face of that wall (L07). I had the workers remove the stone box (L03) which didn’t have anything in it, and they brought the soil level there even with L02. During cleaning in the NW corner of the trench, an intact bowl was found (with what Adam referred to as a “circle-and-ladder” design). After lunch, we opened a new locus which covers the area just beneath L02, and will extend across the trench in a 10 cm pass in order to hopefully expose the very top of the destruction layer, and help us make sense of the ceramics (mostly jars) sitting on/in that layer. We’ve come across another broken vessel (but most of the pieces seem to be there as well) in the SE quadrant of L05. We’ll continue this pass tomorrow, clean and, time permitting, take photographs, in order to be ready to remove the (top?) layer of ceramics on Wednesday (7/21/10) when Roman will be out at the site and will do soil collection, and may do some pollen washing.
In T22, we extended L111 to the E by about 25 cm in order to create a clean baulk for the locus. In any case, the trench isn’t producing much, and Ruben and Adam both agreed that for now, we should leave it be. I will take elevations for the bottom of T22, L111 tomorrow and close that locus.