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

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

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

Scan 72 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 6 (J. F. Daniel, Bamboula V May 1937–Mar. 1938), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

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

Page 156Scan 72 of 90

Drawing: section drawing

PIT 2 UNIT IN WALL 11.57 11.59 11.35 11.52 Archaic PIT 2 2:13 0 20 40 60 80 100 PIT 1 2:22 = clayey red = L.C. III earth = stoney fill = bed-rock 2:18 11.00 11.20 11.40 11.60 11.80 12.00 12.20 12.40 11.29-11.44 = red earth 11.28-11.53→ 11.43-11.72/ = green + black = pit]

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East Extension E1, etc.

31-3-38 Start to open a section, marked on plan as ext. of 31-3-38, south of line drawn from near N-E corner of 2:17, to ca. 50 cm. north of N-E extremity last year, on circuit wall. The surface is at N-W= N-E. Reach redder earth at 40-45 failing to note disturbances. Call this ext. Tr. 2: E1

1-4-38 Open another section 2:E2, adjacent to E1 on the north, running from a point opposite 2:26, where the E. line of the area opened in 1937 turns.

4-4-38 Find red earth in E2 as in E1, and isolate a surface intrusion in the N-W corner. Dark earth goes deeper by the wall.

6-4-38Start to open E3, north of E2 7-4-38 " " " E4 " " E3

Change from top-soil to an intermediate sect strasis about 40 cm. below the surface in all sections. Without a further change of earth go in all sections to (to 173)

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

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