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 40 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.

Unnumbered pageScan 40 of 93

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Drawing: plan with labeled areas: Pit, P.t, P.t, Pt, and a diagonal line across, with faint text at top "below 6.70"

Right page

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18-5-38TRENCH 12 (from p. 83)

becomes harder and sandier at 0.30 below the "rock" level (max.). Dig below and find the stones and soft earth of the "pit" (which is beginning to look much more like a mound than a pit). Yesterday we extended the original trench [blank] meters to the south. Bed-rock was found just below the surface in the first meter, earth such as that of "Tr. 12 S" north of it. We dug to 6.70 at the S. end of Tr. 12 S.

19-5-38 Dig below 6.70 in the S. ext., soon finding bed rock and a stoney rocky fill sloping down toward the north. It is covered with the same earth as in Tr. 12 S. Two intrusions were located in this region at closing time. (To p. 97) Pit: Start digging down in the part within original trench 12. Photos 284-6 of pit before starting, but with part of the loose fill removed in the center. Find the same loose stoney fill as before. On the north it stops above at the yellow (To p. 91)

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

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