July 3, 2013
Today, I closed Locus 6 and opened loci 7,8,9,10,11,12, and 13. I closed Loci 7-11. Loci 12 and 13 are cleared out but need bottom elevation measurements and some cleaning, particularly in Loci 13. Of note, today, I found my first small find. Today the weather was nice. The sun came out for brief periods, but overall, it was overcast. Artu left at 3 pm to see his dad off to Moscow tomorrow. The soil in Locus 12 changed a lot from previous Loci. It is rocky. In Loci 13, there are so many rocks I am unsure what to do with them all. I think they need to be broken before I can move forward in the eastern half of the trench. I have a new theory on the boulder between Loci 12 and 13. Perhaps the boulder fell down from the North Eastern half of the trench and took the wall out with it. Every time I see the boulder in a new Locus, it appears bigger. It would have done a lot of damage on it\'s way down, certainly enough to take out 2 courses of an interior wall.