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EF13.12
Season
2013
Narrative

Hot, relatively uneventful day in WSDB today. We dug and screened Locus 24 almost all the way to the NW baulk. In that baulk are a lot of the medium-sized (30-50 cm diam) rocks that still need to be cleaned. But the material density was very, very light, and the digging did not particularly illuminate what on earth we\'re looking at between the two large parallel stones that bounded the human remains. Is it a passage? If so, then the eastern boulder seems to have shifted toward the west, and was perhaps propped up by the smaller (20-40 cm diameter) stones underneath it, on the western (burial) side. But if Locus 24 is delimiting a passage, the eastern side is entirely unclear at this point.

We also dug into a new locus, 26, to the east of the eastern parallel boulder, to see what the gap in the \"wall\" that runs NW - SE might tell us. So far the answer is: not much. We encountered very little material and so dug and looked through the soil in the wheelbarrows, but we did not screen. And after approximately 20 cm of digging, so far we\'ve only got some more rocks. Tomorrow we\'ll start cleaning them a little more with trowels, etc.