Kourion Complex Apollo (extracted from McFadden's notebooks) (1 of 2)

Dairy Page [handwritten: 800] con't [handwritten: 866] south 10-12 surface soil over eistern, Trench 10, A-b, east 18-20 cleaning to foundation for pavement. Terracotta water pipes here. Page 870 Removed page 835-3 (drain) stones at bottom of this stratum, rest of two and three consist of natural accumulation of drain.

5 Dec. Half a day only - called off work at 1130 on account of heavy rain. Dug in east building court and in drains. 6 Dec. and 8 Dec. Continued digging modern washing over ancient ground level in east building court. Cleaned out intrusion in center of court. Finished digging drains page 831, 835, and 827, digging down to bottom of drains. Drain ( page 835) has a floor which continues under the side walls of drain. Drain (page 831) has stone slab across it which served as a bridge to carry terracotta water pipes leading from upper plateia to vicinity of altar 2. Terracotta pipes were found fallen beneath it in stratum five.

Dug trial pit street 1, see page 837, and dug out drain in it down to rock. Trench 10, A-Z, digging second stratum of foundation of pavement down to rock along east half of trench. Widened trench 10, east 16-18 50 centimeters to west [handwritten: Delta] - E to beginning of west wall of street 1, removing surface soil. Trench 10,in section 10-12 east A-[handwritten: gamma], digging down to rock in east half of trench removing foundation of street pavement. Almost completed removing mud washing in east building court. See film 103, number 14 showing fallen tiles just under north wall of court. Began digging among debris trench 9, e-eta, north 6-14. Surface soil removed from this area before war. Dug trial pit by piece of pavement. street 1, see plan of end section page 839 and found section of drain.

10 Dec. Refilled trench 10, A-Z, east 4-6, all but drain. See film 103, number 16-18 inclusive. Removed small amount of surface soil left ( except for small sample) at extreme south end of street 1. Dug 839-2, drain, street1.

Continued digging trench 9, e - eta, north 9-14 down to dump of rough stones. See film 103, number 21. Also trench 9, just outside northeast corner of court down to debris. See film 103, number 20. Extending trench 10, e - eta, 14-16 north - surface soil. Finished removing surface soil trench 9, e - eta, north 6-9 and began digging out what appears to be large footing trench for west and south walls of room here. See film 103, number 22. Dug page 839-3.

11 Dec. Trench 9, b - gamma, north 7-9, east of wall from top of good block to botton of it. Trench 9, b - gamma, north 14.50 between walls, finished removing fallen mud, probably from roof. Filling trench 10, [handwritten: A-] east 4-6, all but drain and rock-hewn trench. Found drain at Alpha, 20 east (IV-X).Finished digging for the time being trench 9, e-eta, north 9-14.

12 Dec. Began removing surface soil trench 9, eta - theta, north 0-6m. See film 103, number 31. Removing stones and blocks found at