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8-11-35 " Continue digging in dromoi of tombs 30 + 31
Tomb 30: Find the end of the dromos, and clear a long staircase leading down toward the tomb. On digging lower find a pot, perhaps a jug, on the unhewn stones closing the door.
Tomb 31 Continue clearing the dromos. Toward evening we find a large dark area of disturbed earth near the surface. We hope that does not mean that the tomb has been plundered.
Tomb 32 The cutting in bed-rock which we at first regarded as an unusual dromos, now seems to be the cutting of plunderers. We dig on in what we still regard as the chamber, finding two small pieces of human bones at ca. 1.00 m., and an early geometric sherd at . It seems that a considerable part of the tomb has been plundered.
Tomb 33 Continue clearing the dromos of tomb no. 33, finding the end, with rough stairs, at the south. On the east side of the dromos opens what is probably a niche (armara ἀρμαράκι), closed with unhewed stones above, and baked brick below. Uncover the dromos for a length of five meters, without
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8-11-35 reaching the end. This tomb is in different rock from that we have yet found in Kaloriziki field and Mersinoudhia fields. It is harder, and full of pebbles of various sizes. It looks like ancient river-bottom. According to Christo. Dikaios' earliest tomb was in similar rock. Many sherds (mostly of [amphora?]) near niche, in dromos fill.
Tomb s 34 and 35 found in the afternoon, both with relatively narrow dromos – 0.80 and 0.70 wide respectively.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain