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Thursday 8 October 198726
G10/4 - continuation UF 209. nothing to report, varied earths, Classical-period pottery, but nothing is visible in the sections. no trace of wall.
J8/2. continuation UF 210 to find the alignment 488 e, which appears to have been robbed very low.
+ part of the baulk J8/2 - J8/1 collapses. cleaning.
J8/1. continuation UF 211 + cleaning: we are heading towards a halt to the excavation without precise justification.
cleaning of locus 490.
J8/2. UF 212 summary of work 6-8 October. the bulldozer brought to light a block covered with plaster, locus 491, comparable to 459, 488, 490.... Levelling of the whole square. We notice - that above this massif, towards the north, there is a fill of destruction stones. = large shapeless packing cf. sketch, p. 27
- this packing lies between two massifs of brick, to the east and to the west
- the west massif is aussi levelled with locus 491
- the east massif is kept as a witness.
- the bcri brick earth partially covers the locus 491 -> fill of bricks and stones = later than the destruction of 491 = the massifs of brick earth have nothing to do with the construction of 491, they are much later than it = fill well after the construction of the massifs.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain