Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 10, folder 10·1939 and 1947

J. H. Young, II Atmeidan 1939, 1947John Howard Young

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

Scan 9 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 10, folder 10 (J. H. Young, II Atmeidan 1939, 1947), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 10, folder 10, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Page 18Scan 9 of 92

17 May25th - Trench 1, Θ, - K (cont from p. 8)

Drawing: section/profile drawing of trench layers across squares

Θ I K Λ M N Ξ O P Σ Wedge Σ' T Υ Φ North Wall Not exc. to rock UNEXCAV- ATED 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. ---- Line of Wall on W edge of trench -- = Hand pack of stones & earth ° ° ° \\ ° ° ° - Foundation walls of field-stone - Surface soil - Fallen stones and soft earth - Light red earth with ty-skyr chips - Bright red earth (rotted bed-rock) - bedrock]

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Trench 2. - from p. 16 to open up the more squares Ξ, Ξ' and N' 1.72 In the late afternoon, in section N, we came into a fill of wall, very chalky & soft X & large stones between the line of the stone-cut and the trench. [arrow pointing to:] p 23

Drawing: trench plan with grid squares

4. 3. 2. 1. a. b. 1-11 W 1Ξ X N M Λ K 1-1K

1-1.45 c 1.45 W [illegible] 1-1K V^A W^A - Yellow fill c.30 - Red earth c.15 - Quarry in rock at c. 10 - stones and fallen soil - Rem of wall - Plaster floor 2] revised plan p. 36

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

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