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A horn-like terracotta object, [handwritten: Sh 757?] found about 12 cm. above the hearth is probably a metal mould, as are perhaps Sh 610-11. The presence of these objects [handwritten: (lump, ooo)] and the [handwritten: ,] crucible fragments found in this area make it certain that some kind of metal-work was practiced here; however, the small size of the area, the obviously make-shift type of "smelting furnaces" and the absence of [handwritten: slag], to say nothing of unfinished or "rejected" artefacts, do not justify any assumption that the Bamboula industry was more than a small local enterprise. It must nonetheless be noted that the preparation of a special cutting in the bedrock to accommodate [handwritten: it] them must have been laborious to the utmost, and can scarcely have been for another reason than to protect the hearths from the strong seasonal southerly winds. The wall built above and along the edge of the cutting [handwritten: may] must also have served this purpose.
One may well wonder why this industry died out so completely that its very remains were deliberately covered up at the very time (end of LC II) when the settlement apparently was beginning to enjoy its greatest expansion.
Another oven was found under wall between V.9 and V.10.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain