Two test trenches were dug in 1998. Both trenches, TT20 and TT21 (Figs 1-2), were extensions of TT15 which was dug in 1996. The new trenches were positioned with the aim of recovering objects where there was actual or potential interference by villagers. TT20 comprised the remaining two thirds of the room at the north end of TT15 in which the ivory plaque was discovered in 1996. TT21 was in the room at the southern end of the same urban block, covering an area that had been recently dug over and which had produced fragments of bronze objects.
TT20 exposed the east side of a chamber partially excavated in TT15 in 1996 when a portion of an ivory plaque was found on the floor.
