Started this morning with 6 workers cleaning the rock fall in the western area of the operation near Feature 10 and the remaining soil of Locus 25, the wheelbarrow ramp. After they had removed most of the soil I troweled around the western corner where the two walls abut and decided to open up a new locus, 27, to try and see if the stones of the paved floor continued to the wall or not, underneath the rock fall. However about thirty minutes later, Artur (Zahoro's brother) was leaning on the large boulder hanging off of the NW wall and resting on soil, and they both fell into the trench (no one was hurt), and I decided to leave the huge boulder where it fell against the NW wall. I had them clean up the mess from the overburden and topsoil falling in. While that was going on I had one person troweling in Locus 22 to define the clay floor between Feature 10 and the paved floor (16) and feature 21.
Lori came over around 12 and we discussed the final moves for the operation. She suggested that Feature 10 is chronologically related to the paved floor, since there are stones that seem to rest on paving stones to the west, even though the stones to the north look like they are floating. We will tackle this feature next year however; Lori also suggested that the rock fall that we uncovered under the wheelbarrow ramp yesterday might be related to the linear feature but some sort of collapse. Lilit will likely not draw the NW wall of WSAC3 nor the linear feature, but focus on the paved floor, so Lori and I weighed the possibility of breaking the three large boulders that we had left in yesterday and which look like they are resting on the paved floor, so that we could expose the entire floor and so that Lilit doesn't have to come back next year and redraw the stones. Hachool was pretty stoked about that and he and Artur started breaking the large boulder around 12.
Lori also suggested focusing on Feature 21, the trapezoidal stone with smaller stones around it, and she removed some of the smaller stones that I had left from yesterday. I removed the others that seemed to be resting on soil or oddly positioned and cleaned this until lunch. I came across some charcoal directly on top of a stone of the paved floor which I took as well as three sherds of a black burnished vessel that Lori had spotted while reading the pottery for WSAC2, so I bagged these separately in Locus 16. I left the two sherds which are resting on top of a stone of the floor.
After lunch IT HAD TO TORRENTIALLY RAIN AND HAIL, filling the trench with muddy water and ruining any chances of finishing tomorrow. I watched this from the guys' tent and cried a little inside. We left around 2:45 after it had pretty much stopped, but I am not looking forward to the state of WSAC3 tomorrow with tons of broken rock material everywhere, and the clay floor potentially annihilated.