July 25
Seriously almost done...
LA was again at Gegharot.
Pay day so... somehow we wound up with 14 people. SB came out to help and Navalik showed up and actually worked all day.
I spent the day running between basically 4 operations, but we got it done!
LK's extra workers cleaned T02. All in good shape for photographing. Still really not sure what is happening there. 2/3 of a cromlech ring, but on the eastern side only a huge capstone like rock. There is another capstone more closely ringed... so 2 capstones? 1 capstone and a natural basalt rock?? A mystery for next year.
I had 3 guys working on what I made into T04, laying out a trench around where LA had sent people to dig. Areg was the only one who worked, so at the end of the day I had everyone come help. We had to stay late but basically all of locus 1 was taken off.... very messily.
Argishti and Avik started another fire. I totally yelled at them.
In T01 Burial 02, SB oversaw the removal of the wall/possible room and I checked in on them. We took it down level by level horizontally, cleaning and taking photos. It was all construction, no materials. But... we learned more about the construction. Disappointed, but certainly better for finishing up!
In T01 Burial 01 SW and a couple of workers took out the rest of the human remains. I asked her to clean up the soil wall (N) because it was jutting out and has never looked like a chamber wall. Tey took it back a little a couple of stones showed, so I jumped in and just started taking it back quickly... and yep, a 4 cist wall. Must tell LTM.
We ended the day still needing to take final elevations, measurements, and photos in all 4 places, but SW and I can do that. No more teenage boys necessary!