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June 1stJune 1st, cont'd TRENCH III (from p. 16) / to 24 (18) M. 20 A 1 2 3 4 N
Drawing: labeled cross-section
1.00 - [illegible] 1.10 ca. 0.07 3m.
Labels on sketch: rocks & light-coloured earth, light brown & stonelets, dark (burnt), Very Rocky, loose fill; dark brown, wall, Hellenistic, Pure Rom. Jar, cutting for wall, wall
Pinkish cement in wall down to break, which corresponds to Roman strosis strosis ca. 5 cm. with plaster, 0.95 m. from change in wall Sandy soil, dug to depth of 1.10 from break in wall * = light brown strosis, ca. 25 cm. thick, 0.15 above break in wall ** = very narrow strosis of pebbles Strosis no. 1 1.00 deep (just to top of wall) " no. 2 0.40 " " no. 3 0.30 " " no. 4 0.25 " " no. 5 ca. 0.05 deep (pebbles) " no. 6 Roman + Hellenistic ca. 300 B.C - 150 A.D. the wall at m. 4.80 (24.80 of trench) sunk through Roman strosis, but strosis no. 5 is against it, hence later than the wall. The wall, as also strosis 1-3 broken by the loose rocky fill. (The wall at 4.80 must date from the transition from Roman to early christian days) - contd. p. 20 -
Right page
June 2d, cont'd. (from p. 14) (19) Trench II A Extend trench II A 8 meters, to total 16 meters.
Drawing: labeled plan of trench
16 m. ca. 0.05 from surface } walls dug down 0.80 } 12 m rough wall, 0.20 from surface dug down 0.70 8 m. 4 m. 0.70 from floor, which slopes up N. 0.70 from floor dug to 1.80 m. 18 m. 16 TRENCH II flagged floor North pavement 0.40 from floor dug to 1.90
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain