Field diary·DII:3a·1928

Vouni IAlfred Westholm

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

Scan 103 of field diary DII:3a (Vouni I), handwritten in Swedish. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, DII:3a, Public domain (CC0).

Unnumbered pageScan 103 of 180

Continued from scan 102

178179.… ploughing. The laying of the floor itself is peculiar, but has previously been found in the trial trenches (ex 6). at Vouni. On a level smoothed hard trampled plan of dark black-brown clay a solid cast floor of light red fired clay. The floor is thus made of pottery. The earth above this floor was only c. 20 cm thick of which half the lower half consisted of loose earth with ingredients very similar to those that enter into the hard floor itself. The boundary between floor and earth was despite the similar colour very easy to distinguish. In the light red earth on the floor of house 2 some unclear small things were found: a lead piece, an arrowhead fittings and rivets of bronze, which all are combined under number 178. In the vicinity of the stairs was also found a spindle whorl of pottery 179. – In two places the pottery floor was broken through for the purpose of investigation of the slabs the layers below. In the west corner in- … continues

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