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 66 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 66 of 180

Continued from scan 65

… over the whole island and especially at the top a large quantity of hand-sized sea-worn beach stones almost without exception all broken and smashed to pieces. Top-terrace is cut by a (drawing)-format trench. The earth in the upper layers is very dark and extremely finely distributed, resembling black flour. According to G. it should be wind-driven. This is also probable for at the beginning of the trench (at 1) there is a rock edge below and against which the earth should have stopped if the the wind had been easterly. At 2 the trench was deepened. At 0,70 m. depth a larger fragment of a stone bowl (mill?) of a loose stone type. Also was found at the same depth pieces of stone types which according to G. impossibly could [illegible] belong to the island. Another fragment of a similar stone bowl was found somewhat further down in the trench at about the same level, but there naturally nearer the surface. At 0,70 m. depth changes … continues

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