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 144 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 144 of 180

Continued from scan 143

… white raw brick. Beneath the c 15 cm thick light-red pottery floor layer there follows a c 20 cm thick layer of dark ash-containing loose-packed earth containing painted geometric sherds, and beneath this follows a horizontal layer of gravel mixed with a similar dark earth, upon which the uneven rock follows. — The trench cuts a coarse ashlar wall which terminates is perpendicular to parallel with the walls and terminates these to the northwest. Immediately inside (south of) this wall there is a hollow in the rock filled with all manner of ash and charcoal, among which are found geometric and black-slipped sherds; further, a number of large smelted bronze lumps. In the middle of the hollow lies a large stone which hinders an excavation. As the workmen had to be watched elsewhere, the excavation of this hollow must for the time being be postponed, but it will be returned to. The whole of this trench is estimated at approx. 30 m. Within this wall complex there will also be made a … continues

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