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 69 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 69 of 180

9/5(Wednesday) Trial trench 4 is finished. C 30 m. Northwest of trial trench 2 trial trench 5 is opened, extending from the terrace of the fine place from a point where the town wall? is best preserved and runs in the direction up toward trial trench 1. The purpose of this excavation is to investigate the continuation upward of the excavated entrance toward the palace, where naturally further stairs must exist. Furthermore, in connection with this, to obtain the extent seaward of the cement floor on the Haroupia-terrace. Due to a misjudgement of the conditions underground, this excavation gives almost only a negative result. Admittedly the cement floor is found partly disturbed, as is its substructure, about m from trial trench 1, but as regards the continuation of the entrance no clarity is obtained. The excavation is carried out from below upward. On the terrace of the fine place the uneven rock is exposed at only 0,50 m depth. Further down, however, the earth seems to become be- … continues

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