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Dig below 7.73 (1st red stratum), through loose reddish brown earth, and find a second red layer with a few stones, at 7.99. In the north south-east corner a section of firmer red-brown earth goes down from 7.73 to ashy earth.
11-5-39 Dig below 7.99, through loose red-brown earth with some stones, finding a very uneven ashy stratum at 7.92 (N): 8.18 (S.) Photo Bam. '39, 168 at 7.92 = 8.18 Dig through the ashy layer. In the south it stops at firm gritty red-brown clay at 8.00. In the north it stops at loose stoney red earth at . It goes into the footing trench (?) of the wall to 21:4, which is cut from 8.00.
12-5-39 Remove the loose stoney red earth in the north. In the east it stops at the rock, at . In the west it goes down to firm red-brown earth with white grits, at 8.18 Photo Bam. '39, 172 at 8.18
15-5-39 Opening to the south to include tomb 19 in the area of tr. 21, as (To p. 25)
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain