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FILMS does not exsist, in this area - it was a trodden level (then stratum) built probably in the Augustan era. It was cut into here and the silt we are finding poured into this Roman excavation. Stratum 3 & 4 consist both of rather clean sand. At East 2-4 bottom of strat 3 is reached higher than top of moulded base where a harder stratum occurs.
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3 1. Pit 73 just north of tomb monument east ext 0-4 showing top of dromos fill (see AJA Vol L No 4. page 458) and to east stratum 4 of sand, before removing it. Looking east 1.50 PM 27 Oct. L=100 op 12.5 sp. 1/100.
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DIARY cont from p. 1336 1340 many fields round about - about size of your fist on average - not fallen stuff or debris They may well indicate a ground level. Very few, however, were found in north extension (0-4) of Pit 64 (south 5-10). Here the top of 1(c) is indicated by the presence of more gravel which apparently accumulated during winter washings. Began removing 1(c) in both areas. Pit 73, digging stratum 3 0-2 east 0-4 near & around tomb monument.
Oct 25much the same. only about 15 men. Payroll, about £60 this week about £40 last week.
27 OctPit 73 0-2, east 0-4 finished digging strat. 3 pit down to level of moulded base of tomb monument. From top of this moulded block to block beneath was in strat 4 of pre-war pit 74 dromos to Tomb 8 AJA Vol L, No 4, p 458 Fig 7, dromos - strat 4. Our strat 3, today corresponds with
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain