We've been studying a huge catalogue of very poor photos of the site we'll be excavating in April. Also another catalogue of black and white photos of some of the earlier finds - pots and metal tools and jewellery etc. It's almost impossible to make out what most of them are. But what's clear is that they are from all sorts of periods. It looks as though this site is a total mish mash of settlements all on top of each other. Well that's not uncommon, but there's usually a more obvious reason for a site to stay popular for centuries, like being a deep-water port, on a trade route, at a sacred site or something. But this place is miles from the sea, off the beaten track and there's no sign yet of a temple or statuary - just the foundations of houses and a street, and some huge blocks of stone as if there was a plan to build something.