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Code
LK11.05
Season
2011
Narrative

I focused entirely in WSN today, setting WSI2 aside until tomorrow, when I will continue to work on locus 20 in preparation for Mickey's visit and Lilit's drawing. In WSN, two new loci were opened (28 and 29). We are still in the overburden in both, but locus 28 proved to be quite interesting, with traces of a burn level and unusually large and numerous charcoal samples. Is this the remnants of a burnt beam? Atop the charcoal in one area was a large fragment of a storage vessel. Elsewhere, just beneath the burn streak was half of a shallow bowl--the kind with the red painted exterior rim that we encountered in WSG. Material densities in both loci are also quite high. And we are starting to see a yellowish/orange clay popping up across the room, both within the silt matrix of locus 28, and just adjacent to the northeast wall, where I have, on account of the intermittent presence of this clay, segmented off a 1 meter area that will likely constitute locus 30. There is no such trace of clay in locus 29--that is, it is, as usually, appearing first nearer to the walls. Many sizable charcoal samples collected today from locus 28.