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 76 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 76 of 93

156

120+ 3.35 123.35 between points on rock

ca 86 NW to ditch

24.67 5|123.35 10 23 20 33 30 35

16.89 5|84.45 5 34 30 44 40 45

12.38½4.45
84.45
Tr. 18 N90½42
S76¼71¼
Point on stone70¼
rock71177 1/2

10

40.178.036
540.17

Layer with white stone 54

Right page

157 2-6-38 TR. 12, Pit (from p. 145)

clay particles, a continuation of the "composition floor" found before, at 7.92 Photo R8 cleared to this level.

3-6-38 Start to dig down in the pit proper. First we remove a very firm packed layer with considerable sand (\therefore on the section, p. 90), which continues above the line of chavara blocks set upon the 7.92 floor. Below this we find the loose stoney fill. This does not cover the entire "pit area", but stops, as indicated on p. 90, at a stoneless strosis of sandy earth. On top of this strosis there is a thin layer of the stoney earth. Photo R12 with loose stoney fill removed

4-6-38 Below the loose stoney fill there is a rather firmer stoney earth. We start to remove this, but find that it runs under the stoneless sandy earth noted above, so we remove it first. After removing this earth we continue (to p. 159)

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

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