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Margin left: St 873
347. Seal stone, cylindrical in shape. l. 0.040 (roughly).
54-28-8
Street 1, M-140-N, west 11.80 m in strat. 2 and on 3. See also F 346, and Diary 28 May.
Margin left: St 863
348. Scarab
Street 1, M-190-N, west 9.85 m, in strat. 2 on 3, at same level as F 346 & 347 q.v. See p. 180 Diary May 28. On what appears to have been a ground level at one time.
349 (Coin, very thick) | C452 | Curium 4th cent B.C. Apollo mare & suckling foal
Trench 9, O-120-C, north 1.00, bedrock in small depression in rock p. 1045-3. See Film 111 # 33 Removed 31 May 1948. Check 1.00 north when film developed v correct
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28 May 1948 Trench 9, e-z, south about 4-6 m strat 2, consisting mainly of dark earth with few and only very small stones. also strat. 3 consisting of very many small stones (fill) and many large worked stones (fall-debris) It looks much as if in order to get rid of the debris the area was all filled in - probably soon after an earthquake. There are places where there are few stones in strat. 3 but these places are probably all part of same fill - very loose - tends to cave in as one stands on edge of trench. Draughtsman drawing sections this area Trench 9, a - O, south 9. and e, south 9-12. J.L. supervising. Where there are only few stones in 3, earth tends to be rather red whereas elsewhere it is a dark gray-brown. From A-O, strat 1 & 2 are the same. Finished digging Street 1, E - H, west 4-8, strat. 2 only few stones and very small ones. Reddish brown earth, reached bedrock in many places. Trench 9, M-N west 8-12 strat. 2, very few stones, only small ones, but many sherds. A great many sherds at the bottom of … continues
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