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

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

Unnumbered pageScan 130 of 180

Continued from scan 129

[sketch: vertical chain-like motif of connected ovals… result (mattas the 0-point is taken at the highest preserved point of the south wall here): ]

Vertical chain-like motif of connected ovals
DrawingVertical chain-like motif of connected ovals
10– 0,45Loose light brown earth
2– 0,70Charcoal and ash layer with inclusions of
earth lumps (rich in finds layer)
3– 0,80Hard, sterile dark brown earth.

Obs! The section is taken immediately beside the south wall where layer 2 is considerably thicker (and thus perhaps misleading) than in the rest of the layer. The ash layer extends c 1 m from the west wall and 0,50 m from the south wall.

227228The finds made in the charcoal and ash layer are a number of fragments larger and smaller of bronze sheet (227) among them peculiarly to small rombs connected rhombs hammered bronze bands. Furthermore a number of similar bands of silver (228) There are also objects of gold. Besides some similar gold bands were found also small gold sheets crumpled. Possibly these are the figured representations, which … continues

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