After turning up pieces of a rim continuing under a large stone, we removed 2 large capstones in the southern part of the western chamber (Locus 8). At the end of the day, we had uncovered 3 whole pots (Loci 10, 11, 12) and two (sheep?) vertebrae. We took a macrobotanical sample (Ar/Ge.K2.L9.MB.1) at a depth of 128 cm, just to the west of the whole pots in the eastern part of the chamber, because there were white inclusions in the soil (possible eroded granite).
In Locus 9, we began by trying to define the edges of the chamber. In the process of removing rocks, we found a long skinny stone that was likely a stelae resting against the large white capstone. We came down on two stones walls (two courses visible at this point), one running E-W, just below the large white capstone in the center of the kurgan. The other runs N-S and appears to define the western edge of the chamber. There is a line of clay running along both of these walls (though it is higher on the western side. There may also be another line of rocks under the large stones on the eastern side of the chamber. Beneath the northernmost of these rocks, there is another large bird bone.