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 78 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 154Scan 78 of 87

TRENCH 2

Unit 10 W271 10.38
" " E271 10.40
do. do. W280 10.42
" " E284 10.46
Unit 7 W
" " E
do. do. W
" " E
Unit 17 W331 10.93 334 10.94
" " E343 11.05 346 11.08
Unit 8 East W288 287 10.49
" E290 294 10.56

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TRENCH 2from p. 153[page number: 155]

Unit 10: Dig below 10.38=10.40 (highest undisturbed earth), finding a firm floor of clayey earth with a great deal of fair amount of fine r green paxos, at 10.42=10.46. The earth changes in the line of the walls to units 8 + 9, but not to 8

Unit 8: Dig below the 10.44=10.51 floor, through clean accumulation, soon finding a floor of chavara at 10.44 = in the 10.35 in the west part of the unit. In the east the same level continues, of earth with much crushed limestone, at . There are a number of stones on this floor at the east half.

Unit 10: Dig below the 10.42= 10.46 floor, through earth with a great deal of lime + green sandstone, and start to find a fine firm floor of red-brown sandy/clayey earth, at The 10.42=10.46 floor is actually only at the west the limestone readily pure limestone, and sandstone. This level slopes more steeply, and what we have cleared is a wedge-like (To p. 157)

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