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BAMBOULA, TOMB 18
NB VII, p. 69
4 April 1939Tomb 18 lies about 20 m. north of Tomb 12.
An L.C. III level is found 0.75 m. below the surface, lying on red earth.
Photos Bam. '39, 42-43 of Tomb 18 at L.C. III level.
Four skulls are found, in a fair state of preservation, but few bones. Skulls II-IV are small.
Dig below the 0.75 level through very red sandy earth, with few sherds, and begin to find a change to greyer and gritty sandy earth at 0.90. Bones and pottery appear at this level.
Photo Bam. '39, 53, at 0.90. Bam. '39, 54, at 1.00 (rock).
| 4 April | Contents |
| missing? M 1029 | 1. | Silver ring, spiral. |
| ✓ P 2654 | 2. | L.C. III bowl, deep. |
| ✓ P 2655 | 3. | Plain jug. |
| ✓ P 2656 | 4. | Bucchero jug. |
| ✓ M 1030 | 5. | Bronze bowl. |
| ✓ P 2657 | 6. | Feeding bottle. |
| ✓ P 2658 | 7. | L.C. III carinated bowl. |
| ✓ P 2659 | 8. | Ditto. |
5 April
| missing? | 9. | Carnelian bead. In screen, earth from |
| below 0.75. |
6 April
| ✓ Mi 131 | 10. | Steatite whorl. |
| ✓ Mi 201 | 11. | Ivory double disc. |
| ✓ P 2660 | 12. | L.H. III fals-necked jar. |
| ✓ P 2661 | 13. | Large plain pot. |
| ✓ P 2662 | 14. | Base-Ring bowl. |
| ✓ P 2663 | 15. | Plain bowl |
| ✓ P 2664 | 16. | Fragments of White Slip II bowl. Tree pattern |
| ✓ Gl 97 | 17. | Glass bead. Screen. |
| ✓ M 1031 | 18. | Bronze knife. 0.95. |
| ✓ M 1032 | 19. | Bronze spear-head. 0.95. |
| ✓ M 1033 | 20. | Ditto. 0.95. |
| missing? | 21. | Pestle. Screen |
Discarded various sherds from levels which had been mixed together. Saved some mended examples.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain