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

Diary Page 1454 con't as found for present. Mr. Hill continued as yesterday to remove debris over floor of south bay of room 3.

Page 1456 Continued digging north of rooms 2 and 3 bath, page 1449-3, and page 1451-3. Strata 2 and 3 are the same. No real difference noted. Opposite wall dividing rooms 2 and 3 there was a fair quantity of stone blocks. See film 125-30, 31, 35 and film 126-2 and 3. See yesterday's diary. Also dug north of room 4 and removed all that was left of stratum 2 (page 1251). See yesterday's and the day before yesterday's diary. Continued digging page 1261-1 south of large plunge bath, 0-2.50 m. dark loose surface soil, many rough stones. And worked blocks of varying size. Am leaving larger ones as found. Ribbed wares, very few sherds so far. Worked stone blocks found north of rooms 2 and 3 are being placed on wall running east-west immediately to north. Nothing being dug at present north of this wall.

Page 1464 Rodney Young and Roger Edwards arrived last night. Visiting site today. Continued digging out cistern stratum 1369-8. First century A.D. lamp fragment found 0.80 m. from walls. F black [blank] . Rough stones coming out a little smaller. Few large ones; dark soil but no change in character. Mr. Hill continues to remove debris over floor in south bay of room 3. See his notes and my film 126-1 → 5/. Continued digging south of large plunge bath as yesterday. Christofis is drawing worked blocks as found. Continued removing surface soil between east precinct walls 20-24 m. south. Dark loose soil, few stones, sherds or tiles. Digging north of room 4 page 1445-3, see diary June 9.

Page 1466 Continued digging south of plunge bath as yesterday.

4 June 1949 Continued digging out cistern 3, stratum 8, (page 1369-8) no change since yesterday. Mekmet finished clearing floor of south bay of room 3 under Mr. Hill's direction. Very clean brown buff stratum over floor, 0.05 m. in depth from which nine small sherds only; one larger sherd being of characteristic ribbed black ware (characteristic of type found under debris on floors). Two large pieces of lime concrete found 30 to 40 m. above floor. See Mr. Hill's notes. Mekmet dug in flue leading to room 2, from 3. Removed 1465-2 and 3, Two lamps complete and unbroken (Broneer type XXVII) one with cross on discus found in 3, the fire blackened accumulation over floor dating from

Page 1468 time of last use of bath hypocausts as such. Removing part of old dump southeast of large plunge bath, and south side of last year's dump north of bath. 6 June 1949 (Monday) Twelve men today only including foremen, guard, and sherd boy. Last week there were eighteen. Just before quitting time floor of cistern was reached on Saturday afternoon about 5.50 m. below top of coping over a very small area (of perhaps 2 square meters) in center (at least 50 cm. from wall). The earth had been leveled off at a depth of 5.30 m. Below this level the rough stones coming out are very much smaller. There are very few comparatively and average about half fist size. The soil is somewhat darker. Stratum 9 (see page 1467) is the first stratum noticeably different

Page 1470 from the rest of the fill since stratum 1. All finds within 65 cm. of the walls I am removing separately. In stratum 8 (5.10-5.30 from coping) I removed all finds within 50 cm. from walls separately. Roman 1st century A.D. lamp fragments were found in stratum 7, also coin P69. (From sieve after straining soil) Filling exploratory pits sunk below floor levels in rooms 9 and 10 (south part of room 2 now being numbered room 9 and the southeast room, room 10). See film 126-7 and 8. See draftsman's plan and sections and also page 1225-6 and 1227-6 (room 10) and 1221-5 and 1223-5 (room 9). See also film 121-1, 18, 19, 22, also F121, 11 and 12 for room 9, 1221-4. And diary for April 27, 28, 29. Michalis reconstructing north wall of room three under Mr. Hill's directions, also northwest corner of