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July 14 Trench in Center of Orchestra. Cleared.
Drawing: stratigraphic section; labels: -cobbles with pebbles & lime, - Sherds - pebbles - lime., dark sand. not over whole /area Lime, pebbles - not hard, Earth - a few coarse sherds. Chips, Fine crushed poros - some pebbles, no sure lime., Rock - with hollows, bevelled? with asbesti, -.23, -.28, -35, -,70, -82
In. New trench, S. S ide of orchestra. cobblestones fdn goes hard against late kerb. New layeror fdn fill. about even with bottom just (top) course of stones. Broad ribbed Amph frags 3d c. Below level of stones, pottery all heavy - late & coarse, with heavy lime deposit on it. Come on sandy layer ca - .25. which runs right up to ring wall of latest period. Layer 2, to -,25 broad ribbed, late
In cut just S. of Refuge the rock is plastered with coarse, b.p. plaster right up to Arena Wall - Note that the composition of this is quite other than in middle of orchestra. Can this mean that the middle is E.R.?
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The "Mosaic" a piece about .12 × .12 is comprised of a fine mixture of small, colored pebbles or sand, about 3 millimeter mesh. red. green. yellow. with three larger pieces, about size of ball of thumb embedded in it as tho to make part of a pattern? This is surely not Roman. In cutting where "mosaic", a piece of glass A 'step' appears in cutting.
Drawing: plan; labels: 90, 85, .36, 115, T, A., <-60>, Rock of drain wall, Narrow cut as tho to quarry out A
Piece of glass rim, from area under stone 3. all sherds from lower fill (not corridor, area behind drain dug formerly appear Hell. -
N.B. Compare `Mosaic' with [gap] covering coat of seat blocks. - Looks similar.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain