Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 8, folder 6·1936–1937

B. H. Hill, II Surveys 1936–1937Bert Hodge Hill

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Handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 47 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 8, folder 6 (B. H. Hill, II Surveys 1936–1937), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 8, folder 6, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

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110 (May 23) From p. 107. The block of the S system almost touching this southernmost stone of the N. system belongs to a course ca. 15 to 27 below inner sill #21. These blocks then will not determine for us the distance between #19 & #21 when in their wall.

25 May#21 #19

Drawing: line with stones; labels: 80, #16, 1.535

stone in course next below sills brought back into line would indicate sills 1.08 apart ie 2.23 on centers. Higher up (drawing) ? n. window

To occupy the space of 1.14 ± between jambs we have blocks seemingly undisturbed in their N-S relation reaching a clear 0.97 ie. to 1.65 N. of N joint in threshold wh. joint is ca .50 fr. c-l of of door. is in from wall to c .50 for cl of door th required only .535; Small stone next S. if in relation situ wld add 0.15 Supposing sill to have been just 1.5 E now It seat - looks however as if it had fallen a little S of W instead of straight W. So the 0.15 stone may be in relation situ & on this ha 1.12 of the 1.14 allowed for

26 MayAt level -ca 790.05 to .29 N & #21 (drawing) a heavy bed of mortar containing small rock pebbles as usual - face up. unusually solid & well preserved but for crack through middle. Straight sides .09 & .26 making obtuse L m dran N.W. 06 in .125 (drawing) the S side diverges from bottom or line of # 21 012 (225 + 105) in 26 Thickness mass 09 (SE edge) min 025 (NW)

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65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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