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3-11-48 21:51 (41)
give the name 21:51 to the sections opened this year south of 21:17 S & 21:29 S, for ease in recording.
The whole area is very close to the surface, and has been heavily damaged by plowing and other recent disturbances. Nothing is preserved above the present rock level, but some pits & other sinkings preserve some ancient workings.
At @ on my tracing of the plan is a pit which seems to have held a pithos. Some stones held in clay at the sides seem to remain from the ancient packing. To the west, partly overlapping the central pit, are the remnants of a stone vessel with pointed bottom, carefully fitted into a rock cutting. At the east is an oval depression lined with chavara plaster.
At b a heavy stone foundation lies in a deep cutting in the bed rock. On the north it is deep, wider at the bottom than at the top, & filled with
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65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain