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 143 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 143 of 180

Closest to the south corner, which is formed by large edge-set Vounisten squared blocks, there is found in the actual earth surface a layer about half a metre thick of loose boulder-stones extending about 3 m from the corner. They appear to have fallen from a wall lying higher. At a depth of 3 m from the wall-corner crest a horizontal rock floor is found. The diagonal trench cuts through two of the previously mentioned parallel walls, which both still stand to over one metre in height and are laid of larger and smaller partly square-dressed stones held together with gypsum mortar. Between the walls the rock floor floor is exposed at roughly the same level as in the south corner. North of the northern parallel wall the floor is only for a short distance cut into the rock. As the rock sinks further to the north, the floor level has been extended with a pottery floor. The earth above this floor level has throughout the trench been largely of the same character, a light grey-brown tone with embedded pieces of … continues

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