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 68 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 68 of 180

Continued from scan 67

… observed. This does not, however, rule out that they may be found on an extension of the trench. At 3 a row of very large cobblestones runs along the ground surface. Possibly they are the top edge of a wall, which holds back the terrace's surprisingly deep earth. Nowhere in the trench was the solid rock base exposed. The observation of the m possible existence of a floor?? at the level of the hearth prevented any further digging down. Beneath the hearth the earth was greenish-brown and without any remains of bone or the like.

It is most remarkable that throughout the entire excavation not a single trace of a potsherd has been found. This had, however, been expected, at least until hereto now. Circumstances seem to indicate that the feature is Neolithic. The investigation is discontinued at this point whereupon the bathing and lunch are taken.

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