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DIARY. cont. from p. 1298
May 11
May 11 Continued removing upper debris in bldg. S.E. of S.E. corner of Temple, B precinct.
[margin left: Bath room 3] Bath. Continued removing strat. 2 from hypocaust of room 3, in that part where floor has collapsed.
Margin left: 5
In room 5, digging strat. 5- finished 5, a hard strat., only small rough, no worked stones, no tiles, very few sherds. Some large stones near, immediately under in south wall. these are in both 4 & 5 and go down into 6. Strat 5 was quite loose, not at all compact.
[margin left: S.W. of room 7] Mr. Hill removing stone debris s.w. of room 7. See Film 124-1. Also dug down to bedrock west of room 7. See section p. 1275-2. (i-100-k)-(wall of room 7). In
[margin left: room 7] room 7, dug part of 1273-3, a brown loose stratum containing a good deal of decomposed bldg. materialchunks of gypsum (mortar) & lime plaster, some places, stratum quite hard-obviously mixed-would appear to be all debris.
[margin left: room 8] Also removing earth from
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain