Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 8·March–May 1939

J. F. Daniel, Bamboula VII Mar.–May 1939John Franklin Daniel

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

Scan 84 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 8 (J. F. Daniel, Bamboula VII Mar.–May 1939), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 8, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Page (170)Scan 84 of 94

9.5.39

20:119.13
21:78.498.61 floor
21:13c8.09
21:13a_28.08

10.5.39

20:119.46
20:159.01
20:12 E9.08
W9.01
21:147.737.99
21:26 N8.18
" S8.00
21:98.27
21:198.16Upper
” 21:198.20chav pavement
21:13a_18.20
13a_38.29

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9-5.3920:11

Digging below 9.04 we have found a clayey brown level at 9.07. Dig below 9.07 and find a fairly regular clayey level at 9.13. Photo Bam. 39.151 at 9.13 Dig below 9.13, through clayey brown earth, and find an ashy grey level at 9.44.

10-5-39 Removing the 9.44 level we find a very firm clay floor at 9.46. In the south there is a bin of clay and stones, lined with chavara plaster

18-5.39 We have cleared in the lines of the south and east walls of 20:14, digging through mixed brown earth, and finally stopping at in the S and the southern half of the east trench, with firm dark brown earth with small stones + much ash. In the N. end of the E trench gritty red earth is found at this level.

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

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