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23-10-4820:15, II, ect. bed of clay with many stones, clearly burnt under considerable temperature. Around this circle of ash is a solid bed of gritty red clay, similar to that we have been cutting through, burned hard along the ash circle, which slopes up onto it slightly. Over the whole thing was a layer of clayey silt, clearly deposited in several strata with water.
Drawing: stratigraphic cross-section showing layers of mud, ash, and burnt stony bed; labels: mud, [illegible], ash, burnt stony bed.
It now becomes clear that the whole area under 20:11 and 20:15, as well as the confused section dug earlier in 20:12 is a large open space within a vast rock cutting, in which we have the remains of many small furnaces, sunk partly into red clay. They are on several overlapping levels, without any prevalent level; there was apparently a constant replacement, and raising of level as required, no one held (to p. 15)
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain