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 60 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 60 of 180

6/5Sunday. Peace and quiet.

Trial trench 4.7/5Yet one does not gladly abandon the terrace with its fine position! Some further metres S.E. of trial trench 3, where the newly excavated house is, a further trial trench 4 is opened. In the vicinity the klippan rock appears to rise to the surface, but some hewn marks indicate that possibly hollows may be present. In the upper part the rock is scraped at c 0,50 m depth. The earth appears completely sterile. After c 5 m the direction of the trench changes to more northerly. Just at the very corner of the section a 1,10 m broad wall laid of alternating ashlars and boulders is exposed. The wall is preserved only to one course and the rock [illegible] is scraped at a slight depth in the new section direction. The upper earth layers are still of the same sterile character. This trench too appears to be in vain, as finally … continues

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