Field diary·DII:2b·1928

Milia, Soli and KythreaAlfred Westholm

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

Scan 92 of field diary DII:2b (Milia, Soli and Kythrea), handwritten in Swedish. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, DII:2b, Public domain (CC0).

Page 135Scan 92 of 95

Continued from p. 124

… part of the floor. The finds are, both above and below the floor, predominantly flints. The rock is met with at a depth of 2,00 - 2,25 m It is evident that the 5 houses typologically divide into two groups corresponding to different levels. Houses IV and V lie in a lower level and have extremely weak walls. The houses of the upper level have sturdy walls. The floor and the post support in house V, however, belong more closely together with the houses of the upper level than with house IV. The same applies also to the finds, especially as regards the density of flints . Houses I and II appear, both typologically and stratigraphically, to belong together . Together with house II house III should also be placed on the same grounds It seems, however, well justified to distinguish further chronologically between the layers above and below the floors in all the houses. Thus the strata become

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