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SMALL FINDS
30-10-48 Sh 615 1. Frag. of stamped rim. Pit between 21:1 & 21:11, in stony fill
Drawing: drawing of stamped rim frag.
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21: ext. E of 21:1
28-10-48 After removing top soil & clearing many intrusions, find traces of 6.80 undisturbed red earth at ca. 7.10. Dig below this & find a level with much chavara, possibly frags. of plaster floor, at 6.94.
29-10-48 Immediately S. of 21:1 is a small dip marked @ on plan. This was filled with red earth containing chavara, which seems to continue under the sherd floor of 21:1. It goes down to chavara at.
30-10-48 Start digging out the large cutting which separates 21:1 & 21:11. It is filled with stones (large, mostly boulders, in the northern 2.00 m. These lie in loose red earth. Going down the earth becomes freer of stones, & finally ends at bed-rock below floor of 2:1. The rock was hollowed out, and there seems to have been a cave here at one time. The cave apparently collapsed, and it was filled prior to the construction of the sherd floor in the SE (to p. 31
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