Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 9, folder 14·May–July 1940

G. H. McFadden, Ayios Ermoyenis II May–Jul. 1940George H. McFadden

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

Scan 27 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 9, folder 14 (G. H. McFadden, Ayios Ermoyenis II May–Jul. 1940), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 9, folder 14, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Page 252Scan 27 of 99

PIT 40

Drawing: square with circle inside; labels: 290 cm intrusion

Drawing: vertical section diagram; labels: Sandy soul, intrusion undug, Sandy soil / loose, rock, soft rock, 4, 11

c Stopped digging at 290 cm, but intrusion continues.

Right page

Margin left: Deary p. 250

Filling Pit 41 [illegible] of mixed Western earth varying red lower to soft bedrock. In south end dug to depth of 123 on north side 160 to rock, no revealed here. Garden filling is see photo & plan.

Began clearing upper surface in Pit 42 for picture p 121, Jordan's.

Italy declares war on France & England.

June 11 pit 27 to [illegible] - sandy garden gravel few stones dug to depth 160 cm. vitalign of cobbled road.

Cont p. 254

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

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