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 56 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.

Page (110)Scan 56 of 87

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26.4.37TRENCH 2 (from p. 109)

Unit 19: Clean the wall to unit 18, and clear to a floor at 10.50=10.63^(1.50 m E) It is of hard-packed earth with a great deal of limestone and some clay. It seems to have been a floor. It is rather greyish in colour. Photo [illegible] of Unit 19 at 10.50=10.63 & 2:8 at 10.26/10.37

Unit 17: Dig below the 10.58=10.79 level in the eastern part, soon isolating the east wall of the unit. Hence much of what was called unit 17 at the 10.58=10.79 level is not, but belongs to a unit to be called # 21.

Dig too through soft red-brown fill with numerous stones, finding a harder level of the same colour at 10.81, probably not a floor.

Unit 23 (the new name for the area apparently just above the circuit wall just north of old trench 3): Finish clearing out the intrusive earth, which is cut down in platforms, and locate part of a N-S wall. West of this wall is apparently undisturbed grey-green clayey

(to p. 113)

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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