Started this morning declaring the jumble of rocks in the southern corner of WSAC3 Locus 24 and drawing and photographing them after the guys spent about ten minutes sweeping, so that we could take them out. Had some of Lori and Jake's workers to help so it was done quickly, at which point my guys started digging the soil underneath which was the same cultural fill matrix of Locus 18. We quickly came down on more stones of the paved floor, which extend from WSAC2 but do not connect to the SW wall; there is a small strip of clay between the paved floor and the wall which I had two guys trowel for the rest of the day, taking two ok-sized pieces of charcoal and trying to determine the nature of the floor. Before lunch I decided to yank the wheelbarrow ramp out, which I called Locus 25 and which we started taking down right before lunch. The matrix of the entire ramp is the loose, blackish loam and silty soil of the overburden; it ends where Locus 18 and 19 joined around the three huge boulders which I decided to leave in because breaking them would take too long in the time we have left. The ramp left me questioning some things about this western corner of the room: a) doesn't look like there is actually a doorway where Lori and I had thought there might be one, because two courses of the wall showed up and while there is an area that doesn't have stones it might just be poorly preserved like the northern part of the wall. b) we came down on several large boulders in the middle of the ramp which don't exactly articulate in a linear feature like 10, and so might just be wall fall. If the wall as Lori suggests might have been freestanding (since it is so thick) its possible it suffered more in terms of preservation. and c) more of the paved stones are appearing, past the three large boulders, but not sure yet if they go all the way to the NW wall; there is definitely now a large extension of the paved floor extending to this wall however.
While Aparani Artur and Arturik were troweling the bottom of Locus 24, Arturik showed me a very large seemingly storage-vessel sherd that he pulled from near the SW wall, in this very moist clay matrix; I included it in Locus 24 until he showed me another four sherds in situ that looked like the same vessel, so I declared this vessel as Locus 26 and took a rough photograph. I decided to take the sherds out because the surrounding matrix while it is mottled and charcoal-enriched doesn't entirely convince me of a floor, but its possible I did this too hastily and should have left them.
By the end of the day most of the ramp was excavated except for a small area about 15 cm high near the paved floor and the three large boulders, and the large rocks in the middle of where the ramp was that should be taken out after being cleaned. From the ramp came a piece of iron that I found while looking through the buckets (the locus was not screened), a roughly preserved piece of indeterminate use, but from a low elevation.