Kaloriziki, Trenches (extracted from McFadden's notebooks)

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.