Field notes·PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 15·1934–1954

Bamboula, Area A Circuit Wall (extracted from McFadden's notebooks)

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Typed and handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 4 of field notes PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 15 (Bamboula, Area A Circuit Wall (extracted from McFadden's notebooks)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 15, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 4 of 22

Circuit Wall Page 4

Sherd bag cards

I. "bothros" may be 2E1 Outside S. pit (#1) to change of earth; do., to bottom; do. further cleaning. (cf. also: 2E1 Outside Prehistoric Tombs EC (P2841). or 2E2 strip? with [illegible] of A (1)

II. 2E1 Central SE corner by LC Circuit Wall. In earth to flush with base of wall.

III 2E1 11.73, 12.07, 12.52 to... In black earth; do., center NW corner 12.07 to 12.29; do., Further cleaning on 12.07 = 12.52 (to 11.72 SW); do., 12.26 to 12.07 = 12.52 with Some archaic from NE corner; Tr. 2 sect. E. of E. wall of 2:22 11.35 - 11.42; do., 11.42 to ; do., 11.64, 11.73 to green layer; do., Pit under strosis #6 JFD v, p. 144; do., to and in red mud over LC II stony fill; Tr. 2 In circuit wall 11.57, 11.75 to 11.59, 11.75.

IV One card may be missing : Tr. 2 unit in circuit wall 11.45, 11.65 to 11.57, 11.75; do., N to 11.64 = 11.73; do., cleaning on circuit wall; Tr. 2 E. of E. wall of 2.22 11.23 to 11.35; 2E1 11.40, 11.63 to 11.47, 11.83; do. 11.47, 11.83 to Basket #1; do. 12.10 to 12.26

I A 2E1 below 10.69 = 11.16 by circuit wall.

I B Tr. 3A-B 0.60 - 0.75; do., west of circuit wall 10.95 to 11.21; do., west of circuit wall 11.21 - 11.36; do., 11.36- 11.43; do., above circuit wall 11.43 to rock; Tr. 2 units 8-9 ca. 9.50 to 9.48, 9.99; 2:8 uncertain earth to ca. 10.00; Tr. 2 units 9, 10, 11 Lowest disturbed earth; 2.9 9.48, 9.99 to ; 2:13 10.20, 10.40 to surely undisturbed earth; do., S. under old Tr. 3 Disturbed to rock; do., At rock level where cut by archaic wall.

VIII Some card or cards must be missing from the following: Tr. 3 outside wall, easternmost extension to level of rock; do., outside circuit wall to bedrock; do., In pits in rock outside circuit wall; do., Outside wall in last (E) cutting in rock; do., Lower Roman fill to rock.

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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