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| 23.5.39 | TR. 11, Well |
clear above the well, preparatory to building it up to the surface. Isolate the cutting in soft green konnos, and remove the disturbed fill, of loose red earth containing large pieces of chavara, to 1.00 x 0.50 x 0.50. This goes down in places to a fill of soft rock, in others to a stone fill lying over the former. This is composed of unhewn stones averaging 30 x 40 x 15 cm., laid fairly regularly on their broad sides, clearly a fill laid at the time of building the well. In the west this slopes down to the present top of the masonry. In the east it is preserved a meter above it.
Photos Bam. '39. 169, 204-209. The rock fill shown in these photos is not under the stone fill, but lies over it. It is thus a disturbance later than the period of the well. Photos Bam. '39. 210-217 with disturbed earth completely removed.
The highest stone of the face of the well is 2.91 below the surface of the αλόνι. The bottom of the well is 18.05 below this stone, 20.96 below the aloni
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65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain