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Thursday 24 September
continuation UF 201 (in H8/1)
UF 203 (in H9/3)
- in H8/1, the floor level is found everywhere Geometric = ± Important: the fill is not made up of layers in situ, but of a packing of blocks, rubble (abundance of plaster fragments) and of earth -> deliberate fill, of Classical date. As one is located between two partition walls, this means that the construction of the building Classical: [illegible]
- began with the digging of a large pit down to the Geometric level
- then narrower foundations were dug for the walls.
Opening of the second half (west) of H8/1 = UF 204
in this part of the square one should find another partition wall, parallel to 453
in H9/3, one notices a robber trench of a wall in the extension of 453 = this is a second "pillar" of the partition 453-
descent - stones in situ are reached, deeply embedded momentary halt of the excavation to allow the mud to dry a little.
in H8/2, the east part of the square, not excavated in 1985, is cleared to obtain the east face of wall 453 = UF 205
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain