2008- 26- 27. Saturday.. cloudy and windy this morning. Early this morning ATS recorded and provided datum elevations for the three points chosen yesterday. Datum 1 (on a boulder at the east end of the trench): 2285.931 m asl. Datum 2 (on a flat boulder set in the bedrock, near mid- trench): 2283. 975 masl. Datum 3 (on a rock in the low wall course at the western extent of the trench): 2283.783 masl. I received EGAF and three of her workers, barred from T22 due to strong winds. One of her workers uncovered a fairly significant amount of charcoal fragments from underneath a tock in the eastern rockfall: since I now had data points, I triangulated the coordinates (3.82m w, 1.52 m. south) from the northeast corner of the trench. I dont know how secure the context of this charcoal is: it was in soil infiltrated with some plant roots, at a point which had long been close to the surface. Up to now i have been reluctant to keep any of the fragments of charcoal which have appeared in the backfill and collapse removed by the workers, as they have all been from contexts shallow enough to be ambiguous, or to have been contaminated by precipitation or bioturbation (for instance, today EGAF pulled a modern glass fragments from between the stones of the western wall stretch, after cleaning the wall for half an hour or so). But after the cleaning is finished and I can be more secure in the proveniences of the excavated objects, I will of course return to a more rigorous stance. In the afternoon it was still cloudy, but warm, and not so windy on the lee side of the hill. Today we continued cleaning the trench, moving down and west from the area of rockfall, to the level of the LB floor at the excavated base of the LB wall. We also almost finished removing the dirt and some of the fallen rocks from the central northern baulk, down to where the fallen stones lay on top of the plastic- covered LB floor (we have not yet confirmed that these stones are in fact lying on top of the plastic though). we are also waiting until all of the waste soil has been removed before we remove the plastic which protects the LB floor, which is more extensive than previously thought, almost 2 sq m between the walls and rockfall. At the end of the day i ordered a cleanup, while some workers were still trowelling to level the floor area and uncover the plastic. Another of the workers on loan from EGAF uncovered a large segment of decorated gray- plack vessel rim, under a stone overhang on the north side of the trench (TBlocated). I re- covered this to wait for tomorrow's full uncovering of the floor locus-- which, along with the other new loci, will be measured tomorrow. the running bag total for Locus 100 is 2 bone, 1 lithics, 3 ceramics, 1 various charcoal and 1 charcoal sample. I defined Locus 101 between the LB and facing wall, and collected 1 bag of sherds (EB with some LB according to Sanvel), 1 bag bone and 1 bag lithics. Tomorrow I will more fully define and measure Loci 101- 106.