Beginning of the day, and we normally begin by talking about what the immediate plan for excavation will be. Meredith tells me that she will be working in the north and center of her square, having focused on the south area the day before. Marina considers her progress in the square just west of Meredith’s. Allie is drawing the north-south and east-west walls in Meredith’s trench, and here is studying the brick which can be very difficult to see in this dry silty environment. A little later we see Meredith taking levels before beginning another level of removal.

In Katherine’s east 11 square the large wall on the east of the trench is being removed in sections, from north to south. You see here a view looking east that shows the well-preserved bricks in the baulk descending five courses. The photo has been taken a level beneath this, and there are visible fallen bricks on the surface and in the baulk in the level above. The north-south wall was associated with several cross walls of rooms, all of them dating by pottery to the mid-18th Dynasty.