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 79 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 (171)Scan 79 of 90

170

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12-4-384:5

Start clearing in 4:5, doing some further clearing in the surface intrusions. Remove the raised portion in the S-W corner, finding that the stones & sherds rest on a very 13-4-38 ashy level at. Clean off the rest of the 1937 floor with a knife, so as to be sure of the earth and to avoid the presence of intrusive sherds in later digging. This floor is at 9.64 = 9.87 Photo 220 of 4:5 at 9.64 = 9.87 Dig below 9.64 = 9.87 and find a floor at 9.74 in the west, of sandy earth with considerable ash. Numerous sherds etc. lie on this. The group of stones in the center lay on the 9.64 = 9.87 level, which is probably accumulation over the floor. ("Post") Dig below 9.74, through gummy earth, probably floor material, to a level, partly bed-rock, partly clayey earth, firm but probably not trod, at

15-4-38 Continue cleaning the level. Clear in the east a (To p. 179)

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

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