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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 15 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 15 of 180

Continued from scan 14

… of the house's north wall. This is an important point and shows a relative contemporaneity in the construction of the house and the floor. The walls were of course built after the floor, but in this place room has been left so that the walls could be built on the solid bedrock. Everything together is thus a unified construction. The excavation has now roughly the following appearance!

Plan of a rectangular structure divided into two parts, with a long narrow trench extending downwards from its right side, a circular shape with a dot in the centre to the right, and a direction arrow at bottom left
DrawingPlan of a rectangular structure divided into two parts, with a long narrow trench extending downwards from its right side, a circular shape with a dot in the centre to the right, and a direction arrow at bottom left
Plan of a rectangular structure divided into two parts, with a long narrow trench extending downwards from its right side, a circular shape with a dot in the centre to the right, and a direction arrow at bottom left
DrawingPlan of a rectangular structure divided into two parts, with a long narrow trench extending downwards from its right side, a circular shape with a dot in the centre to the right, and a direction arrow at bottom left

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