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Code
LK05.27
Season
2005
Narrative

It was helpful having Adam in the field today to assess the situation in WSL. We talked about the possiblity that there are successive floors here that are repaired or altered over time because the rocks of locus 5 seem to be resting on a silt level below which is a thin clay that may be an earlier floor or a prep surface to fill in the pit that we are digging in locus 7. We also considered the possiblity that the pit is a trash pit. Adam noted the nice variety of ceramic forms that are emerging from this pit. More carbon collected too. We also continued to excavate locus 8, and bottomed out at the clay and plaster level. This pit is not as deep as the locus 7 pit, whose bottom we still haven't reached. We ended the day in this trench by cleaning the whole trench and taking a photo. In WSK we took final photos again. In WSAR we reached a packed clay surface that might be a floor (locus 4) after changing to locus 3 when we encounted a medium brown sandy silt. Found a carbon sample in locus 3. Seems to be more LB pottery in WSAR than in my other trenches but we'll see after cleaning. We also shot the corner points and datum of this trench. Adam and I had an interesting wander west of room k. There seem to be pathways of carved bedrock. (Apparently Ruben had doubted that these were worked stones but Arkady later confiimed it.) There are basins carved in some of these rocks which suggests this be some sort of production area. It might be interesting to put a small trench just west of room k.