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Code
LK11.36
Season
2011
Narrative

It figures on that on the second to last day of the season, when there is so very much work to do, we get hit by a hard rain and hail storm. Worked only half a day today, although the workers stayed until 2pm waiting for the rain to clear, so hard to count it as a half day. Will count it as a 2/3 day. In the morning, we cleaned WSM3 in preparation for photos (which I never got to take, unfortunately). And in WSN, we completed excavating the pit burial of locus 93, removing some more bones and pottery and defining the edges of the pit, which is clearly worked into the natural bedrock. We also opened a new locus, 94, parallel to 92, with the aim of continuing to excavate through the floor and reach bedrock across the room. Concerning the stratigraphy of N, prior to excavating the pit burial, we sensed that the matrix atop it was looser than elsewhere across the floor. But the matrix was nevertheless similar to that of the floor, a tannish clay speckled with charcoal, and the fact that the clay lining of the pit starts at a considerably lower elevation than the floor (that is, the worked natural bedrock clay), I still think this pit was under the floor at least by the final incarnation of the room. Note especially the striking difference in elevation between the top of the presumed column base and the top of the pit. Another pit may be emerging in locus 94, but we didn't have time to pursue this emerging development before the rain cut our day short.