Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 7·April–June 1938

J. F. Daniel, Bamboula VI April–June 1938John Franklin Daniel

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

Scan 37 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 7 (J. F. Daniel, Bamboula VI April–June 1938), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 7, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

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17-5-382 E 4 West (from p. 69 top)

We have dug below 11.48 through fine silted grey earth, surely accumulation over a floor, and found a firm well trod floor with much sandstone at 11.56 See p. 77 for photos The 11.56 level is probably the original period 1 floor level.

19.5.38 Dig below 11.56, through decomposed sandstone with earth and ash, finding bedrock in the N.^at 11.73 west, an earth fill in the S E, at 11.69 = 11.79

Yesterday we removed some of the loose stones of the mess left in 2E4 central. Those removed lay in grey sandy earth like that of the accumulation over the 11.56 floor. The earth slopes down sharply at this point, and may have accomodated a wall at one time, but the stones we found here were not in situ.

20-5-38 Finish clearing to the rock and 11.69 = 11.79 floors. The 11.69 = 11.79 (SW - SE) floor is exactly the same as the 11.68 floor in 2 E 3, of mixed clayey earth; red, grey, brown, yellow earth particles, and white grits. It too went over the (to p. 89)

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

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