Kaloriziki, Tombs (extracted from McFadden's notebooks)

KALORIZIKI, TRENCH 1 NB I (McF), pp.8 ff.

31 March-5 April 1952

Dug Trench 1 to depth of - all appears to have been an intrusive pit, the fill being quite the same throughout - sandy soil mixed with patches of darker surface soil and bits of chavara averaging walnut and fist size. Few stones but some up to foot size. See Film 166-13. Handful of sherds - Geometric and Bucchero. No other finds. The rock is sometimes ammovracho and sometimes chavara - stratified thus. Dug down to bedrock. The intrusive pit was sunk into rock. It was so soft that rifler failed to realize that it was rock.

31 March-5 April 1952

Dug Trench 2, SW branch to depth of and NE branch to depth of and SE branch to depth of . Fill all same as in Trench 1, all fill of intrusive pits but pottery only from SW pit. About one-fifth bucket of sherds - Geometric - bowl, kylix and other frags. The soil in these intrusive pits was somewhat was somewhat sandier than in Trench 1. See Film 166-14 and 15. Dug to bedrock in all branches. The tomb riflers sank their pits into the rock as they did in Trench 1.

31 March-5 April 1952

Dug Trench 3 to depth of . See Film 166-16. The soil here was found undisturbed - very sandy soil - all the same. Dug down to bedrock of ammo-chavara. No sherds. 3 rough stones about bucket size - very few other stones.