Started in the morning with four workers removing Locus 7, the cultural fill/yellowish brown clay-y matrix with organic splotches running along the partition wall to the southern corner of the room. Two workers at the same time started troweling the top of the SW wall, Locus 11. A few large stones were removed from where the wheelbarrow ramp hits the excavated surface, and two stones from the SE face of the partition wall that were floating and needed to come off. After removing these the wall behind it appeared and is nicely preserved, with one very large triangular-shaped boulder positioned at the corner of the room. Locus 7 was closed before lunch and I took measurements for the excavated surface and demarcated two new loci:
Locus 12 is the continuation of the darker overburden, more silty and less loamy than Locus 6 and 8 above it, but still much darker than the yellowish brown clay matrix near the wall. I designated the spreading of that matrix as Locus 13, and these two loci cover respectively the NW and SE half of the operation delimited by the room's walls. After lunch I had four workers start removing Locus 12 and had two workers continue troweling in Locus 11. Gagik and I removed a couple stones in the old SW baulk and the corner of the room is now showing, and is nicely preserved at this point. The wheelbarrow ramp needs to be shortened as I think that it is directly where the door to the room might be. At the end of the day most of Locus 12 had been removed but not all of it, and in the western corner of the operation two large stones appear to be floating and need to come out, whether or not they should be broken is up to the workers.