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 54 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 54 of 180

Trial trench 34/5The workmen are moved c 40 m eastwards on the same terrace. Here according to information the statues nos. 2 and 3 have been found, and certain walls in the ground surface seem to justify a trial excavation. Trial trench 3 is staked out mainly in the direction of the slope ing. Approximately in the middle of the trench a long stretch of ashlar blocks set in mortar wall is exposed, running for the most part in the direction of the trench's length. C 5 m from the highest point of the trench (the wall evidently continues even higher up) the wall turns at right angles to the north. This wall is followed After a further approximately 5 m it turns again upward and a third wall thus parallel with the first is exposed on the outer side. In the middle of wall no. 2 there is a c 2 m wide entrance or gateway arrangement with wall projections downward on both sides. The arrangement is approximately as follows:

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