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… the collapse is certainly not due to destruction, since sherds from the same vessel do not lie together and no cracked vessel is found. The whole of layer 3 contains more sherds than earth. Among the sherds, which on the whole appear early, a knob from a bygelkanna is noted.
The gateway is only partly intact. Its western part has in fact fallen in, and it is its stones that cover the surface layer of the fill. Whether these stones were thrown aside by human hand or the gateway collapsed of its own accord is difficult to say. The former is suggested by the great destruction among the pottery, the latter by an apparently undisturbed layer sequence, in that the sherd layer is covered by a thin rock-collapse layer. I reconstruct the sequence of events in the following way:
the tomb has been plundered, or rather ravaged in ancient times [the gold still lies partly in place, after all], whereby the tomb's pottery has been systematically smashed. The gateway has been rebuilt where it was torn down … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain