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Diary Extra – Day Twenty-Two in pictures

Tuesday, August 1, 2023 (9:58 PM)

Emma with her decorated stone fragment. (📷 Jo Bourne)
A closer view... (📷 Jo Bourne)
Molly and Rosalind in the finds hut. (📷 Jo Bourne)
Hana in the finds hut. (📷 Jo Bourne)
Tristran at work on the floors of Structure One. (📷 Jo Bourne)
Tom catches up on paperwork. (📷 Jo Bourne)
Jan and the ash pile in the south-end of Structure Twelve. (📷 Jo Bourne)
Michaela in her sondage beside Structure Twelve's western, central pier. (📷 Jo Bourne)
Gianluca in Structure Twelve. (📷 Jo Bourne)
Michele working on the animal bone deposit outside Twenty-Seven. (📷 Jo Bourne)
Elena working on the animal bone deposit outside Twenty-Seven. (📷 Jo Bourne)
Jackson excavating a juvenile sheep mandible outside Structure Twenty-Seven. (📷 Jo Bourne)
Ceci and Allyson planning the demolition layer of Twenty-Seven. (📷 Jo Bourne)
Molly, Ian and Stephanie on the robber debris in Structure Twenty-Seven's north-eastern corner. (📷 Jo Bourne)
Kevin excavating the interior north-western wall of Structure Twenty-Seven. (📷 Jo Bourne)
Alice completes the photographic log in the passageway outside Structure Ten. (📷 Jo Bourne)
Rowan excavating the contents of a hearth in Structure Eight/Seventeen. (📷 Jo Bourne)
Tom excavating an orthostat slot in Structure Seventeen. (📷 Jo Bourne)
Johanna, Nick J. and Mark working on Structure Thirty-Nine. (📷 Jo Bourne)
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