August 9, 2000
The order came down from above to move dirt in this trench. We start by dropping, leveling the South side
of L1029 where the blue corner used to be. I found a cute dog in the corner about 1.3m by 1.3m from the
Northwest corner. I kt'd it as kt1238. It seemed to be aroudn a lot of bones. We have found some bones in
this location and there is pottery on small rocks all around this area in the middle of the North part of the
trench.
Things are starting to come out under L1038 is a wall of rocks heading Southwest. The corner may be
formed with some rocks of L1039. The sheep figure maybe from the corner where pottery smashes and
stones may indicate a surface. Under L1028 a line of rocks is coming up under where L1027 used to be.
The most confusing spot and possibly most interesting is in the middle of the North. There may be a corner
with the rocks.
We took a small carbon sample from the Northwest of the rocks of L1028. L1044 is almost all gone. I
want to finish off this fill today. A piece of basalt was knocked out of the East baulk 40 cm up from the
base.
After breakfast we cut down the lump remaining in the middle from L1029. On the South side there is
some darker dirt which maybe an oven or something.
After sweeping L1029 clean, there is a line of blue stuff with large pot sherds. There is another line like an
S, but there is no symmetry that would mean anything.
We cut down this section, it is split by the blue line L1037 on the West, L1034 on the East. We cut the
Southwest corner of L1037 to find the edge of the cobbles below. We scraped L1034 to find more blue
stuff ont he East side, it starts to uncover a possible extension of the rocks of L1033. We pulled a round
stone from the cobbles, kt'd as 1261.
Then we cut down L1034 to level it with the East part only in the corner at first. To finish off L1044 we
cut the middle of the East side. We finish choppping today and are sweeping.