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2-5-38Tomb 2
All the rest of the tomb is filled with stone + brick at this level. Photos 251-252 of skeleton VI
Dig below VI and find the layer with stones + bricks in most of the tomb. Photos 253-4 of stoney strosis.
This must be fallen from built walls of the tomb. On the south side, where the rock is good, there are less stones. The most stones are to the S + E, where the rock is bad. The probability is that the S. wall was not faced.
3-5-38 Remove the stoney fill, which rests in part on light brown earth which has silted under water, and in part on red-brown earth containing sherds. It is over the lowest burial remains in the tomb, so that if the tomb was not originally faced with masonry (and maybe never).
The tomb was obviously badly disturbed before the stoney fill came in. In the northern half of the tomb we found only occasional sherds and a few broken bones, surely not in situ. The remains in (to p. 37)
Margin left:
Photos 255-7 of lowest layer with finds.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain