by redelfs | Aug 17, 2014 | Research Blog
I spent this final week of the dig the same way I spent the three days previously: articulating walls and other various forms of essentially cleaning up the area known as structure IV. This building encompasses both trenches 4 and 5, which I bounced between as was...
by redelfs | Aug 9, 2014 | Research Blog
I began this week the same way I did last week: I kept digging deeper into my pit in order to find the bedrock foundation for the temple and retaining walls. And I seemingly found it on Tuesday, and so I spent my last day in the trench cleaning off/ out what appeared...
by redelfs | Aug 4, 2014 | Research Blog
At the beginning of this shorter week, I continued clearing up the fill wall down in the pit (aka the pre-dug trench). The only interesting thing out of there was an amphora handle. Anyway, I finished that early on Wednesday, finally becoming able to see the ground...
by redelfs | Jul 26, 2014 | Research Blog
Some very interesting things happened this week in the Temple’s South Trench. On Monday, Leif discovered the edge of the wall we were looking for. It ended up bisecting our trench diagonally, going to the Southeast’s corner. Since we found the...
by redelfs | Jul 22, 2014 | Research Blog
This week I worked on the site’s temple in the North Eastern Section. The temple in question likely hails from the later days of the empire and is dedicated to one of the Emperors. Of the two trenches for the temple, I dug out the Southern Trench, which already had a...
