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-dy In J3 East we continued today to excavate k1 and k2. In k1 we excavated f500 to make the surface more level; all features were relayed by eI and mO and we removed f501. 

k 1
dy In the eastern half of k1 we excavated f500 to give this locus a more level surface. In the north a somewhat harder surface was encountered. It was a natural surface and might have been caused by the effects of the winter precipitation during the past year. It does not constitute a clear break in this natural deposit because it did not extend very far from the Northern baulk, because it was not very hard and because the deposit underneath seems to be the same as above it. The entire locus was cleaned and dM took v502, v503 and v503a of f501 and a500 respectively. f501 was then removed. 

f 500
dy Feature f500 was excavated today only in the eastern half of k1. It was still the same slighly reddish light gray deposit. f511, f504, f505 and f506 seem to be floating now. Two q-items were found here, q501.1 and q501.2

f 501
dy Feature f501 was removed today. While it was excavated we paid close attention to the structure of this feature. It consisted of both large pebbles and pieces of pottery. Both the pottery and the pebbles were aligned in such a way as to follow the slope of the feature, ie. downwards to the east. However, there was no clear layering of sherds and stones apparent and therefore I do not consider this an installation. The pottery sherds were collected as q505. 

f 523
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ds Feature f523 could be called an artificial feature. It was created when during the removal of f501, a piece of a grinding slab had been dislodged from the top of the Southern section where it had been sticking out of the top soil. In order to be able to assign the grinding slab fragment the designation q512.1 the feature f523 had to be created. The top soil had never been excavated by us: it had already been removed two years ago when this locus was part of J2.

k 2
dy We cleaned the South section of the German trench B6 by cutting it back approximately 5 cm. The deposit that was removed in this proces was defined as f512. Then we proceeded to excavate the Northwestern corner of k2 (f514 and f513) and just to the west of German trench B6 (f515 and f516). These areas were excavated in order to overlay the orientation of our grid on the B6 trench. However, because our surveyor, bP could not yet survey the markers for k2 that are missing (ie. the Eastern markers and those markers that define the baulks) we proceeded very cautiously. 

f 512
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dy We cleaned the South section of the German trench B6 by cutting it back approximately 5 cm. The deposit that was removed in this proces was defined as f512. Along the entire length of this section, except for the western most part, is a row of large stones that is a continuation of the second apron. After we cleaned this section we could distinguish no separate layers: under the top soil began a natural accumulation that seems everywhere to rest immediately upon the stones of the second apron. While removing the dirt that had come from the section and that had piled up at the foot of the stones q502.1 was found. It came from the dirt on which the largest stone of the top of the second apron rest, as was evident from the exactly fitting impression in that accumulation.
ds Approximately 5 cm vertical slice of soil constituting the old south baulk of trench B6, excavated by a German team several years ago.  It overlays the stones of the second apron, f532.
tc ov f532

f 514
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ds Feature f514 is the top soil in the NW corner of k2, north of the German trench BA. This narrow wedge of soil was removed to align the German trench B6 to the standard Mozan grid system. As a result, locus k2 has no standing Northern baulk. No pottery was collected. It covers f513.
tc co f513 

f 513
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ds Feature f513 is a natural accumulation under the top soil, f514 in the NW corner of k2, and extending vertically down to the stopping  point of the German excavations in trench B6.
dy After we cleaned the Northern section of the German trench B6 no different features, layers were visible. For this reason we will excavate this column of deposit until the bottom of the German trench. 

f 515
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ds Feature f515 is the top soil in a triangular wedge that was excavated to align the west baulk of the German trench B6 to the western edge of k2.
dy We excavated this wedge of soil to the west of the German trench in B6. This trench left a small ridge standing in k2. r1041 was taken to indicate the Southwestern corner of this area. Its Southern border is a continuation of the trench BA instead orientated along our grid. This will be corrected as soon as we haved photographed the Southern section of trench BA. f515 covers f516. No pottery was collected for this locus.
tc co f516 

f 516
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dy Feature f516 is a vertical wedge of naturally deposited soil under the top soil of f515 in locus k2.  It extends vertically downward to the stopping point of previous excavations in the German trench B6. 
dy When the Western section of the German trench in B6 had been cleaned no distinct features, layers became visible. Therefore we will excavate this column of deposits until it is at the same elevation as the bottom of trench B6.