First I figured I'd start this post off with a picture of the hill where Hippos/Sussita is located.
Well It's been one week in the dig out of four and some remarkable progress in each of the areas. In our area, square E6, we found nothing but a destroyed wall and after digging a 2 meter pit we found no floor either. I must say that lifting 250 pound rocks over your head is no walk in the park.
The square next to us, E8, has uncovered some awesome finds. So far they have a nice stone floor, which is a road, and just yesterday they found a cistern. They also keep unearthing impressive columns, one of which can be seen in the picture below.
In A0 on the other side of the dig, which would be the NE corner, they are uncovering a really well built wall and possibly a mosaic floor in one of the side corners of their 5 meter square.
As for D5, the square which found the amulet on the first day, they haven't found much else but brown gold. It's just been dirt and rocks, and very large rocks. Now they are digging down another foot or two to see if they can't find a floor.
In E1's square they have started to do a narrow "deep probe". Which means they keep digging down until Dr. Schuler tells them to stop. They are trying to find anything that might be under the church. There could have been a Roman temple that the North East Church was built on top of.
Finally, we get to E6. Our square was looking very promising with a strong wall being uncovered but now the wall is looking more and more damaged from the earthquake. The wall never really was uncovered very well and not much of a defining wall was found except on the outside edge facing the street. Like I mentioned earlier we dug down almost 2 meters and never found a floor. Next week we will get a new square, I'll keep you posted on that progress.
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