Daily log, Fri 11.Sep.2015

• Author: Birce KÖKSAL

11.Gün Çalışmaları

Bugün ben rahatsızlandığım için sahaya çıkamadım. Bu nedenle Anja beni yanına alarak, depoya götürdü. Ancak çizim yapmayı yeni öğrendiğim için bu işi daha iyi bilen Hazal'ı da yanımıza aldık.İlk önce 10-9 Eylül'den kalma buluntuları track numaralarına göre sıraladık. Ardından hemen çizimlere başladık. Toplamda yaklaşık 8-10 adet çizim yaptım. Daha sonra Hazal bana Munsell kataloğundan seramik hamurunun rengini bulmayı öğretti. Anja da çizimlerimizi sık sık kontrol etti. Biz depoda bunları yaparken ; Çağatay, Cem, Michael, Nehemie ve Toby alanda çalışmalara devam etti. Saat 14:00 gibi kazı evine geldiler. Erken gelmelerinin sebebi öğlen yemeklerini yememeleriymiş. Kazı evinde sandviçlerini yedikten sonra 14:30'da depodan ayrıldık.

Benim Günüm

Bugün depoda çok güzel zaman geçirdi. Alandaki sıcak ve yorgunluktan sonra, depoda çalışmak çok iyi geldi. Ve iyi işler çıkardık. Yine de çok sıcak birgündü.

Report from the field

• Author: Michael Loy

The tract crack team worked hard today: we walked over 50 tracts in the heat, without a lunch break! The day begin in the harbour area, surveyed in the interests of completeness, rather than because there was any particularly interesting material turning up in this location. We then continued past the potential ‘farmstead’ where Çağatay spotted the architectural features of a potential terrace wall and a cylindrical stone. He spoke with a friendly farmer, who pointed out an (Ottoman?) well in the middle of one of his fields.

After the break, we continued east, surveying a large rubbish dump area. This was the most challenging part of the day, as the heat was becoming intense, and there was very little to see apart from a few fragments of modern tile. We then mountaineered up a rather steep slope towards an area previously surveyed, so that the two locations will form a continuous area on the data presentation. At the top of the hill we all decided to keep working and finish early instead of taking a lunch break - the adrenaline must really have been running!

Toby took us down another cliff edge ('be careful not to slip, guys’) across another field of potential interest, and up another hill. It must have been the heat/hunger/dehydration, but at the top of the hill Toby made the crazy suggestion that we walk two more tracts…the motion did not carry, and instead we finished for the day just after 1:30p.m.

The fruits of our labours

The friendly farmer brought us over some figs while we were sat having our break! He sat with us a while and was interested in seeing our maps and asking about what we were doing.

List of Tracts and POIs