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38 date 27 November 1948
work began 0705
p. 185 1. photo East north extension of Room cleared of first layer.
p. 185 2. Room M, eighth layer after storm.
p. 185 4. 3. Room E south end of East wall, trench beside wall with stones in it.
p. 185 3 Room X showing red earth face in west corner of Room removed below first fourth layer.
work stopped 0820 Thunderstorm. workmen left 0850 too much rain and cold,
Room W, more of modern fill cleared.
Room E cleaned trench along East wall part way. Then When trench cleared, the soil below seems on level with part of wall where plaster begins and wall changes
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date 27 November 1948
small finds
no. 7 to smaller [illegible] stones This layer slopes up toward North.
In Room X, in fifth layer, in the west section of room, a roughly circular area of red sandy soil removed. The top of soil below this was at the level of the french forth west wall of this room. Beyond this Beyond this, but not alway contiguous a layer of loose soil with small white pebbly objects and stones began removing this. The red sandy soil was for about 10-20 cm. in depth.
Trenches East of hypocaust
- in Room X the soil with stones slopes down toward french, and is by wa, by and large, separated from red by ridge harder with whiter clayey soil … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain
