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SW SCARP of 20:13e
Drawing: section; labels: TOP SOIL, DARK RED, LIGHT RED, BEDROCK
PLAN of 20:13e
Drawing: plan; labels: CEMENT FLOOR, N with arrow
SCALE 2cm:1m.
Right page
20:13e
July 1, 1954
Following the suggestion of a pencilled notation in Daniel's plan of Area E lay out a southern extension of 20:13 which is 2,5 by 3,9 m. . Having cleared the top soil, reach dark red soil at the level of the main bedrock bank in 20:13. At this level find and isolate an intrusion 1m. by 70cm. Also find the top of a wide wall.
July 2, 1954
The wall is ca. 70 cm. wide and preserved in only one course for about half the length of the trench. Its foundation "trench" appears to have been hewn from the bedrock in the form of a raised track which is visible throughout the length of the trench, at the NW end of which it turns at right angles. This turn is accentuated by a large fragment of paved flooring over the bedrock nestling in the angle of the foundation trench. This flooring has almost exactly the appearance of rather coarse modern cement, though much shallower than a modern flooring would be (ca. 1cm.) Its color is about the same as the surrounding chavara, from the powder of which it is probably made. The well-preserved
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65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain