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on 11/v/40 no digging except some surface work [illegible]
on 12/v/40, Sunday, no digging
[illegible, ~1 word13/v/40] [Took levels of fallen doorstone so that it can be placed on the section drawing, both to upper surface at the 2 points marked in green by the architect and the earth it rested on, after removal, at approximately position of the 2 marks:]
Level of fallen doorstone [insertion: level of top] below [E] levelling nail set by J.S.L. in back wall of tomb:
| E (toward tomb) on green mark | .48 |
| under stone | .55 |
| W (toward dromos) on green mark | .365 |
| under stone | .485 |
[margin left: Section p. 55 p. 56-58]
Under the stone, crushed handles and neck of jar #1 directly visible; where shoulder should be, brown sandy earth, no chavara, to where buckled-in pieces of pot appear.
Clear the brown fill from between pot and door leaving [harder?] white fill
*no[insertion: -4.074] at .58 below levelling nail, .05* or so [est.] above resting surface of #1
[Left pot to be finished in drawing and photographed as cleared.
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administer back to clearing N side of tomb where strip [of sample earth had been left] cut down most of higher part in center, leaving small sample [insertion: at] full ht (supposed to mark level to which heavy fall of roof reached from above.]
E of this are 3 or more iron nails or parts thereof, not yet on drawing, and beyond the bone under which the strigil(?) disappears, some other bg object, unless it is the handle of the strigil. yes
afternoon rest of #1 [drawn in by VG with moderate success impaired by climb of meter stick from nails to pot; phot. by G. McF. [insertion: 52, 20-21]]
Earth inside removed (part wh. had not been covered by slab). Contained some chavara. Removed pieces of the pot in 2 sacks, left clear imprint showing its angular shoulder H. ca. .85, diam. ca .36. Levels [insertion: of imprint] below top of nail in back wall: lowest point .785- (rather below middle of jar, which tipped up a bit), shoulder angle .74, [insertion: high place] handle ca .65
Began working down between door and imprint of #1, and struck what appeared to be piece of chavara with large & fine worm holes in them (accompanied by plenty of ordinary
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain