Today was the first day of excavation at TsBC12 for 2015. Levon Aghekyan is working with us and we have hired 8 people. We opened an operation (Trench 01) that is 10m x 8m in Subgroup 1 (northwestern slope) on the upper "terrace". The trench is just below/south of B10 and B09. It appears to cover 4-6 tombs and a terrace wall. I may expand it north to meet with the B10 trench, but if there is time, I will expand it southward so that we might capture an entire cromlech on the middle terrace. The cromlech look to be constructed of medium boulders, so may have capstones, others are not yet apparent.
We made it through locus 1, the topsoil and started working on locus 2, cleaning around the outsides and corners of the trench and then some of the cromlechs. Will continue tomorrow, hopefully with as much gusto.