Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 10·1948

J. F. Daniel, Bamboula IX 1948John Franklin Daniel

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Handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 43 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 10 (J. F. Daniel, Bamboula IX 1948), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 10, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Page (82)Scan 43 of 83

Right page

Circuit wall South (73)

15-11-48 Extend the section Start digging down in the western part of the YG section, after having finally located the brick wall on 13-11-48. Clear off the upper tumble to show the stones in it. Photo Bam '48 F5 at tumble.

16-11-48 The bevel that was left as bed-rock for 1.30 along the west is actually a deep fill overlying earlier deposit, apparently put in as a road-or ramp-bed for the archaic wall. It lies over a loose fill of stones & earth, which may be part of the characteristic fill of the archaic wall. Photos Bam. '48 F 10-12 showing rock fill partly cut away.

Photo Bam. '48 G 1 of rock filling removed, showing stone fill.

Remove the loose stone fill and come on the sloping stone pavement

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65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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