Kaloriziki, Trenches (extracted from McFadden's notebooks)

NB I (McF), pp.30 ff.

Dug Trench 9 to depth -1.68 m. Compact soft sandy soil. No sign of any intrusive pit, no stones at all. About one-fifth bucket of sherds (sub-Mycenean and pseudo-Buccheró). Found two sides of middle of rock-hewn dromos at north end of trench. See draughtsman's plan. Bedrock at -1.10 m. Have not removed any fill from dromos which appears to be undisturbed. This tomb should be dug if we want to find any more sub-Mycenean tombs when we have more time to dig them. See Film 156-32. I see now that tomb in Trench 8 is almost certainly the tomb to which the dromos in Trench 9 leads. See Trench 8.

Dug Trench 10 to level -2.07 m. within a rock-hewn dromos, removing fill of an intrusive pit. Bedrock level -0.83 m. The intrusive pit covers entire area dug. Fill of pit contained sandy soil, bits of chavara, very small, up to 1-2 cms., many stones averaging from half foot to bucket size. About half bucketful sherds - Buccheró and sub-Mycenean.

Finished digging Trench 11. Dug here into bedrock without realizing it, it being so soft here, like compact sand, down to level -2.44 m. Top level of bedrock is at -1.24 m. No finds, no stones, only very sandy soil. Filling this up today. See Film 167-3.

Filling Trench 12, dug to bedrock at level -1.27 m. Very sandy soil, no stones, no finds. Undisturbed. No photo, no cuttings.