7/15/2013
Team today was: Arman, Zarzand, Roman, Roland, Grikor, Karlos, and Davit (subbing for Sanobel).
Datum 1 is past the SW corner of the trench.
T35 is 10 m x 3 m, but is not a full 10 m long, because the trench was measured over a slope. The W half of the trench (460 cm x 300 cm) is completed, so the area I’m working in is really only about 5 x 3 m. (Map in journal from 7/15/2013.)
We started with T35 locus 5, which are the remains of wash at the SE corner. We began by removing a very large stone, just W of the SE corner, then removing the remains of wash below the floor in the center of the trench.
New datum is -177.5 cm below datum 1, 111 cm from the S wall, in a rock at the center of the trench.
The soil in the area of the N wall where we are cleaning appears different: lighter soil, softer, and looser. I would not be surprised if, when we remove the baulk, it ends up being a part of the cultural area that we suspect extends from T20.
A lithic of some kind came off of the elevated section of the trench, 40 cm from N wall x 160 cm from E wall. I had just mapped it in, but did not have the elevation. It was under a roundish rock, in loose, pale soil.
Around lunch (just before noon), in the SE corner of the trench, charcoal began to appear (C14.04 & 05), and then the soil began to have many charcoal inclusions. Maybe a pit… We are finishing, after lunch, leveling the S/SE area of the trench, exposing the stones near the N wall as much as possible, before sweeping. Drawing has been slow, because of the frequency of small finds and charcoal (requiring measurement each time).
T35.5.C14.101
-84.6 cm below new datum
52 cm fro the S wall x 340 cm from the E wall
T35.5.C14.102
-90 cm below new datum
115 cm from S wall x 335 cm from E wall
T35.5.C14.103
-92 cm below new datum
80 cm from S wall x 94 cm from E wall
T35.5.C14.104
-92 cm below new datum
93 cm from S wall x 50 cm from E wall
T35.5.C14.105
-92 cm below new datum
120 cm from S wall x 50 cm from E wall
T35.5.C14.106
-95 cm below new datum
110 cm from S wall x 320 cm from E wall
T35.5.C14.107
-97 cm below new datum
68 cm from S wall x 318 from E wall
T35.5.B.101
-91 cm below new datum
146 cm from S wall x 358 cm from E wall
T35.5.B.102
-89 cm below new datum
82 cm from N wall x 51 cm from E wall
T35.5.B.103
-88 cm below new datum
15 cm from S wall x 360 cm from E
T35.C.101
-98 cm below new datum
97 cm from S wall x 100 cm from E wall