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12-11-48TRENCH 5, LOWER
Clean out fallen earth in the section by the big stone, and start to clearing to the pebbly level 0.15 above the bottom of the stone. It is a rather hard level with slight unevenness, apparently a road. At the edges it slopes up on to the stones of the wall. The big stone is 1.20 × .45 × .30-
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West of the wall we have been digging for several days through about 20 cm. of red earth with numerous smallish stones. No real difference in stratum and no building was found. We are now coming down on a real earth floor. In the east it is cut in the line of the presumed west face of the wall. At the extreme southern edge of the trench there is a deposit of 15 cm. of ashy earth over the floor. The floor dips fairly deeply in the center N, but there can be little doubt that this really is a floor
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Photo Bam. '48 G 4-6
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain