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27-5-38TR. 12, Pit (from p. 119)
sloping down steeply in the east. Photo Q 11 at 7.98 = 8.29
Dig below 7.98 = 8.29. The sto rock fill stops at 8.46 (E) at a very firm level of similar crushed white rock. This is a strosis 5 cm. thick, which was laid over gritty dark red-brown earth with some ash and numerous stones and sherds. It is at 8.51 (E). Cut through the 8.51 level and start to find a compact level of rather similar earth, but very grey purplish grained, in the E. In the W we seem to have bed-rock. This grey level is
28.5.38at 8.59. Dig below 8.59 and find a level of mixed yellow sand and ash at 8.63. Cut through this and find bed-rock at 8.67 .
Margin left: 1-6-38
Start working in the section west of that originally cleared, in the so-called West extension. Dig first through the earth south of and partly (to p. 145)
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