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Monday 18 September 1989
Cleaning in I 6 / 1 and 4 - Sounding of 1977 backfilled to re-expose walls 1 and 2 of the earliest Geometric level - It is the water table which had stopped us at the time - wall 1 of the Swedes = 247 (Geometric wall) " 2 " = 248 ( " " ) " 3 " = 250 ( " Archaic )
The earth is already sticky at the level of floor 251 - The reed roots (rotten) smell bad - Little pottery (topsoil accumulated for 12 years) UF 1 - (K 89 1 and 2) = KEF 951 and KEF 950
Cleaning wall 507 base Δ 2.64 I 7/3 UF 5 - K 89 3
Tuesday 19 September 1989
Walls 247 and 248 reappear in the mud . UF 1 (continued) including EAA 1 (Rhodian stamped handle) and EAA 2 (incised Phoenician handle) - KEF no. above. The water is reached at the same altitude as in 1977 i.e. Δ 1,51 m .
Sounding 1,60 m wide south of wall 3 of the Swedes (250) under Δ 2, 11 m - UF 2 - (earth accumulated since 1977 , risk of mixing)
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain