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 87 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 87 of 180

Continued from scan 86

… above the top step follows a almost perpendicular cutting in the trench (a deepening or channel, and from this the uneven and raw rock slopes up to a simple ashlar wall barely 0,50 m broad. 0,80 m from this floor this wall begins a horizontal floor, which is laid of hand-sized stones fixed with mortar. Higher up lies a further floor of red, firmly trodden earth resting on a substructure of white small stones. Under this floor there is a c 0,50 m thick earth layer containing pottery which is collected for the sake of dating. The floor extends up to an extremely well-laid ashlar wall, in fact the same as the north terrace wall described earlier in trial trench 1. The wall is however considerably more destroyed in here trial trench 6 than in 1, and of the cement floor 1 which was found in the former case not a trace remains. In the upper part of the trench, however, … continues

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