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 69 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 136Scan 69 of 87

UNIT 12

Drawing: plan of unit 12; labels: Pit #6, N with arrow, Pit #1, Pit #2, Pit #5, Pit #4 (bothros), Pit #3, Pit #7

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30-4-37TRENCH 2 from p. 135

Unit 18: Dig below the (10.82) 10.68=10.87 floor, through whitish pulverized sandstone with some clay.

Unit 22: Dig below the 11.10 (ie. 10.97=11.10) floor, and find another floor, of hardpacked red earth with fragments of clay and green sandstone, at 11.10=11.19

3-5-37Unit 12: clear pit #1 (under the fireplace. It stops at , on bed-rock on the south, on the earlier pit 2 in the north. It contained loose ashy earth.

Pit 2: filled with red earth with a great deal of decomposed sandstone. Contains some grey brick and stones. The sandstone becomes purer as the pit goes down.

Unit 18: Clear the 10.84=10.92 floor. It is of red earth with considerable quantities of lime. In some places, particularly in the S-W, there are is a good deal of yellow sandstone. The floor is quite uneven. In the center is a slab of limestone. (to p. 139)

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