Field notes·PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 20·1934–1954

Bamboula, Tombs (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 65 of field notes PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 20 (Bamboula, Tombs (extracted from McFadden's notebooks)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 20, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 65 of 75

BAMBOULA, TOMB 37

NB VIII, p. 83, 68

2 June 1939Clear one long and one short depression in the rock northwest of Tomb 36. The long depression is covered with large stone slabs. It is 0.40 below the surface of the lot.

Photo Bam. '39, 239 before removing slabs.

Remove the slabs and find that these are two cists, A and B. Only sherds were found.

Cist C was not covered with slabs. Dark earth goes to the pot and bronze object, nos. 1 and 2. A few more bones were found.

5 JunePhoto Bam. '39, 241.

Contents

M 1038✓ P 26991. Dull ended bronze hafted tool. L. 0.14. Cist C. 2. Deep monochrome ware bowl. Cist C.

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

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