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On 22/6 - 1928 In square Δ3, during level excavation of a 20 cm layer, pieces of vessels were found, together with a quantity of small rectangular iron and bronze sheets. On continuing the excavation into square Δ4 it proved to be a deposit of vessels, arrowheads and a coat of mail, whose small parts in several places lay corroded together into large coherent cakes. (See drawing!) The part of the deposit that lay within the squares just mentioned was drawn at scale 1/10 and photographed. To best lift the above-mentioned cakes, paraffin was poured over them, which then set and gave further stability to the cakes. The clearing and lifting began from the sides. During the clearing work the following emerged:
A charcoal and ash layer, whose extent in plan and depth is shown in the drawings, lay beneath the deposit itself. The layer was thickest in the middle and thinned out … continues
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