7/8/06 Spent most of today at Hnaberd with Adam, doing a surface pick-up. We collected about half a bag of ceramics, some appearing to be diagnostic for the mid-1st mill BC. Hnaberd is impressive for its size and diverse architectural features, including room blocks that recall the lower town at Tsaghkahovit. At Tsaghkahovit today we continued in WSG locus 18, expanding it to the northeast wall. The matrix continued to be sterile. Decided to stop in this area for now and resume in WSH locus 30. If there's time at the end of the season, I'll probe a little further to the southeast in WSG locus 18. In WSH, we began to take down the final area of locus 30, in the back of the room, along the southeast wall. So far, this area of locus 30 is relatively low in materials. In WSI, Adam found what appears to be a while pot in the probable floor, alongside the southwest wall. Decided to not excavate this pot until we finish with locus 19. Troweling in the bottom of locus 19 today, it became clear to me and Adam that the floor will be just below this locus. We encountered a more packed, clayish silt. Will finish shoveling the top layer of locus 19, before troweling out the floor. The strange thing is that along southwest wall, where we found the pot, the floor seems to be at a much higher elevation. It's possible that the floor slants to the northeast as it did in WSH, although a slanting floor made more sense in that room since the room is on the slope of the hill. Perhaps there's a step in the floor? Seems unlikely. Perhaps there are two floors, although if so the higher floor was not preserved over most of the area of the room. A slope seems to be the most likely possibility. Hopefully the situation will become clear in the next few days.