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DIARY Bath. Also continued removing surface soil from outer large double wall, to point a little south of where the terracotta pipe crosses it As this pipe at source end terminates within wall, its use ante dates the construction of the wall. [margin left: Bath room 3] Mr. Hill digging out in south bay of room 3 hypocaust. See his notes.
20 May49 [margin left: Cistern 2] Continued to dig out cistern 2, see section p. 1369-2. In strat. 1, consisting of fallen rough stones of varying size, and chunks of lime plaster which once covered walls, whitish earth, loose, contained hardly any sherds. Strat. 2 is much darker, and contains a good deal of pottery and some glass. A good many rough stones coming out, averaging fist size and smaller. Some tiles but few. The first stratum was some what different from the 2d, containing a greater
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain