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 89 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 89 of 180

Continued from scan 88

… not taken out. The final excavation of the house walls is being prepared.

Wednesday

16/5As the earth layers do not cover anywhere the walls by more than 0,50 m it is decided to make a complete excavation of the house or room which the walls bound. The wall which lies to the north is designated a), the one along the slope b) and so on around. By eye judgement the house has a quadratic plan. The walls are laid directly on the rock and are highly varied of rather weak character, built of highly varying cobblestones with gypsum mortar. The walls bound a partly damaged gypsum floor, which will be examined more closely later. Wall a) does not really rest directly on the rock but on a stepped-substructure, which can then be followed c. 20 metres further away in the field. Wall b) on the other hand lies directly on the rock, which here is found c. 1 m below the surface. Next to wall c some most remarkable finds were made which however do not give information about the building's

[margin right, struck through with three vertical lines:

150bronze helmet
151-”- bronze helmet
152bronze pin
153moloch
154gold figurine
155gold earring
156[illegible]
1571 något silf-verarmband
158klädes pin etc.
1592 bronze pins
160silver ring
161bronze bowl
162bronze fibula
163bronze point]

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