Completing another week and a visit to Sul

This is an overview of Field D of the fortress which is located in the NW corner of the site. This area has a great deal of Iron Age II domestic architecture.

Here you can see Don Garner on the left and Gerald Keown (standing) confer with Jerry Mattingly (seated) about the progress of excavation in Gerald Keown's square in Field D. You can see the remains of a large doorway in the front center of the picture which dates to the Iron II period. 

This picture shows how we take levels out at the site. This lets us know elevation of any find in the square and lets us compare this to elevations in other square.

 

Here we see a method of reading the level for the vertically challenged.

Here Don Garner is drawing the balks in Field E. We drawing the balks to show the layers of soil and debris. This is critical to understanding the history of the deposits.

Here you can see some of our local workers taking a break.

Yesterday, the team visited the village of Sul which is located near the excavation site. The current village of Sul is built upslope from the Ottoman period village of Sul which is now abandon.

Here Dr. Jerry Mattingly explains the Ottoman ruins of Sul. Studying these kind of ruins helps us understand how ruins are formed.   

You can see here that some of the arches are still intact.

Here you can see the remains of a entire building from the Ottoman building.

I have returned to Kentucky. The doctors advised me to return home and not return to the excavation. So I will be contining the blog throughout the season from home.

John Wineland

Grayson, Kentucky