2004 TRENCHES PF 5E, 10, & 15 Katherine Blanchard, Field Supervisor Laura Crowley, Assistant Field Supervisor Week 5: Field Students: Abby Christofferson Sanda Heinz Andrew McClellan Vounteer: Lynn Makowsky View of Katy Blanchard's trenches with her team at work during Week 5. The season is coming to an end. As of this point, we have one week of excavation remaining. As of five minutes before the end of the day, our wall was found to extend through the entire southern end of our trench and thus we will not be able to close the FOD this year. Our cosidetto "floor level" was followed with such skill that when measured, the entire trench is within 1cm of itself--that is, Sanda, Abby, Laura, Andrew and Lynn took an amazing natural pass onto a flat surface. View from the south of Trenches PF 5E, 10 and 15 during Week 5. Feature 5, our "heat related anomaly" is now 150 cm wide and also goes into an unexcavated section. Furthering the need to expand eastward next season. Heat related anomaly, Feature 5, in Trench PF 15. Questions arise as to interior vs. exterior space. As of right now, I do not believe we have enough evidence to give an educated opinion. The identification of our Heat Related Anomaly would assist in this. For example, if it were indeed a kiln, then this space was exterior. How do we then account for a cosidetto "floor level"? It was, as previously stated, merely an area of heavy activity. The fact that the wall extends to the very edge our trench at increasingly greater depths might merely mean that we have a terracing wall turned into the back wall of the building. One of the things that has made us all stop and think daily is the size of our wall foundations--they are much too large for a small workshop. However, this next week will see us expose the depth of this wall, as well as remove our drain and vessel. Hopefullly this will help us determine more before next year. Lynn Makowsky (left) and Sanda Heinz working in Trench PF 15. I would like to commend my trench for their amazing work this season. Andrew has been working in the corner of PF 5E where two walls join and on the look out for postholes and whether or not the foundation trench of the interior of the building continues. Sanda today excavated a shattered fineware bowl which had a fragment of coarseware rim that joined to a coarseware rim below. Abby has followed the floor level so well that I ask her if I'm on it and not the other way around. My assistant, Laura, has been responsible for Feature 5 and has done a wonderful job exposing its edges. Lynn joined us in time for our recent heatwave and has defined around rocks in odd corners. I could not have worked alone and appreciate all their efforts and their ability to make me laugh daily. [on a personal note-for those I haven't been able to reach: I got a job.] Field Supervisor Katy Blanchard.   Abby Christofferson taking an even pass in the Podere Funghi.   Andrew McClellan, Laura Crowley, and Abby Christofferson.   Lynn Makowsky (left) and Andrew McClellan (right) in Katy Blanchard's trenches.   Assistant Field Supervisor Laura Crowley.   Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 - Final Report Director, Gregory Warden gwarden@mail.smu.edu Director, Michael Thomas michael.thomas@tufts.edu While the team is in Italy during the summer field season, send e-mail to: mvap3@dada.it To email an individual on the team, enter the person's last name in the subject heading. Excavation house phone: 055-844-9834, or, when calling from the US: 011-39-55-844-9834. Introduction | 2004 Field Season | Poggio Colla Field School | What’s New | Staff | Students Site History | Directors' Diaries | Student Diaries | Excavation Friends | Facilities | Conservation | Surveys Robert Belanger | Katherine Blanchard | Josh Moran | Caitlin Vacanti | Ivo van der Graaff | Robert Vander Poppen QuickTime VR | Site Set-Up | Dig Daily Life | Excavation Process | Field Manual | Lectures | Season's End Archives | Finds | Research Projects | Publications | Bibliography | Mugello Area | Home