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 70 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.

Page (145)Scan 70 of 93

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Drawing: plan with labeled areas; labels: 236, 240, 237, 238, 234, 235, 41, 40

R8. R12

Right page

1-6-38Tr. 12, Pit (from p. 129)

over the pit. The strata here slope up steeply toward the west.

2-6.38Dig without changing sherds to the level previously found at 7.67, of sandy (cokite sand) grey hearth. It slopes up onto, but not completely over, the loose stony fill of the pit. In the south it stops at a straight line of chavara blocks, connecting the piece fitted onto the N-W side of the big triangular piece with the easternmost of the big pieces in 2nd W. ext. There is a a change of earth to grey with white grits to the N-W of the first big stone in 2nd W. ext.

Photos [illegible] at 7.67

Dig below 7.67 and begin to find less gravelly brown earth with stones. At the top it is quite hard. It slopes down steeply, as the 7.67 level did. At the south there is a very slight change of earth (to browner with more white grits) under the chavara row.

Photo of pit area cleared

Dig below this level and find firm dark greyish earth with lighter (to p. 157)

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

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