8.12.06 Last day of excavation for me. Rather sad day! Locus 5, the clay surface along the SE and NE walls inside the room, is expanding as we clear off Locus 6, the wash level. We succeeded in clearing the entire corner down to this clay surface. The surface appears to slope upward into the bedrock in the E corner. Locus 6 still needs to be dug deeper and boundary better defined between Locus 5 and Locus 6. I feel bad about leaving the room in something of a state of disarray for Lori, but at least we found a surface! Overall, we dug pretty deeply in the two and a half weeks since this trench was begun, so that's good.