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 17 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 17 of 180

Continued from scan 16

… other coarse pottery. Regarding a niche or window opening in the wall, see later! Also at the outer corner b-c a deep digging is carried out. From this corner wall c extends north-west only m, where it although apparently only seemingly ends with a straight edge, which is excavated to c 1 m depth. The place is cleared and examined more closely. It then turns out that the continuation of wall c is laid of unfired brick down to the underlying level, which consists of smaller stones. The mud-brick wall is established partly by the fact that the earth in a straight line with the wall faces is (within two lines) considerably darker in colour than the earth outside, partly by the fact that the different brick levels at a suitable excavation method can be distinguished very clearly, to a number of at least - - - . Also the vertical boundaries of the different bricks are observed. In a section wall laid out across the wall it is also observed that the wall on the outside … continues

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