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Small finds 20:15(b)
24-6-54 M 2501. bronze needle 17, 1 cm. max. diam. before cleaning ,6 cm. Intact except for chip near center; badly diseased. S. half just below -1.08
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20:15(b)
June 21, 1954
Laid out a trench in the same direction as 20:15(a) but offset from it to the west in order to give berth to roots of a carob tree. The two trenches have a tangent corner. The offset trench, 2 x 4 m., is called 20:15(b)
Top soil as in 20:15(a). Change sherds at 40 cm.
June 22, 1954
Reach an irregular brachas formation in north part of trench corresponding to bed-rock ledge in south of 20:15(a). The soil over this is very red in spots. The bed-rock has cuttings which suggest an armorati or even the collapsed roof of a tomb.
June 23, 1954 Photo BAM '54 no. 4 Fallen stones in situ over bed-rock cutting Photo BAM '54 no. 5 main cutting cleared 75 cm. below roof
The cutting is solidly filled with a mixture of dissolved limestone and rich brown earth with an admixture of large and small regular stones including an intact quern of river stone. (to p. 123)
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain