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SMALL FINDS
21-10-48 Sh 611 1. Curved tube of heavy red clay, possibly retort. 20:11 in footing trench of W. wall, below 9.50 .
22-10-48 Sh 608 2. Frag. of crucible ? Tr. 20 South, intrusive.
Sh 610 3. frag. from roughly pyramidal tube. coarse clay. 20:15, below 9.19
23-10-48 Sh 609 4. frag, of crucible base - copper incrustation. 20:15, in line of west wall (disturbed earth).
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Dig below 9.46 in west through firm red earth, finding another firm level a centimeter or two lower, at 9.50. A grey circle appears in the west at this level; the 9.46 level ran over it. We find only two sherds in this level: 1 L-C I coarse } discard 1 BR II } both
Clear out a narrow trench filled with light earth in the line of the the SE jamb of the door to 20:14. It is filled with mixed loose earth. It was visible from at least 9.46. It seems to go to about 9.65. Photo 48: B:1 from East
The plaster basin in the SW corner is laid on about 3 cm. of red earth, which lie over a clear footing trench for the W. wall. This is packed with stones in loose earth. The red earth found in the NW seems to be the same as that under it which is cut by the footing trench
Drawing: section diagram; labels: S, chavara 9.46, ditch fm. 9.50, N, Thin red, 9.50, red, wall, chavara, thin red, <- 20:14-, footing trench] The footing
trench is 0.23 deep, the bottom stones carefully set in clay. (to p. 5)
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain