Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 5·March 1937–May 1938

J. F. Daniel, Bamboula IV Mar. 1937–May 1938John Franklin Daniel

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Handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 37 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 5 (J. F. Daniel, Bamboula IV Mar. 1937–May 1938), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 5, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 37 of 87

SMALL FINDS [circled: 72]

15-4-37

S 111. Double-conical spindle-whorl, of
softish greystone. Find as p. 58, # 10

16-4-37

M 192. Bronze instrument. Tr. 2, Unit 14,
in pit # 1 (E), ca. 15 cm. down

M 20 | 3. Bronze tool, most bevelled square in section; one third round with chisel end. Find as # 2, ca. 40 cm. l. 0.155

P 744 | 4. Bowl with concave rim + raised wishbone handle. Mended from sherds found in Tr. 2, Unit 14, in the tumble over the 10.32 floor, in every level from 9.91 = 10.05 to the floor. First sherds found 8-4-37.

Sh 60 | 5. White slip sherd with red paint. Tr. 2, Unit 16, 9.76 - 9.78 [bracket spanning 2 lines: 10.19 - 10.32] [sherds found 12-4-37]

M 246. Bronze - point end of knife (?). Tr. 2, Unit
14, in pit # 2 - ca. 60 cm. down
St 517. Circular corn-rubber. Tr. 2, Unit 19,
on 10.56 = 10.59
St 508. do. do. do. do.

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13-4-37| TRENCH 2 [circled: 73] from p. 71 | There are many fallen stones in the gap in the wall to unit 17 (SE.), which seems to be a door. Remove these. At 10.45 a line (as of the wall) materializes.

Unit 9 The layer of crushed limestone goes to a gravelly floor, of which part was found last week. The floor is now entirely cleared, to 10.09 = 10.19. In the west the bed-rock is generally showing, but in the east there is the artificial floor of gravel.

Unit 11 : Find a level, probably a floor, of pulverized red-brown spáxos with quantity of gravel at 10.11 = 10.13. Dig through this and find a layer with larger pieces of spáxos, at 10.21 = 10.35

Photo B. 10 63 of fireplace in unit 8 at just over. 10.26 / 10.37

Unit 8 : Remove the baked mud in the upper layer of the fireplace, and dig down through the fill, which is grey ash with some sand above, and black ash below. The bottom, and E, S, + West walls are smeared with yellow mud. The

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